interrogativize

Verb

interrogativize (third-person singular simple present interrogativizes, present participle interrogativizing, simple past and past participle interrogativized)

1. To make interrogative.
   • All languages have devices to negativize and interrogativize and to turn some sentences into commands and propositions: I am not going, are you? Come on!1968, Yuen Ren Chao, “The Classification of Languages” (chapter 41), in Language and Symbolic Systems, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, page 91
   • In Literary Japanese and in some of the dialects (e.g. Shodon in the northern Ryūkyūs) there is a sentence particle yá (§15.6a) that has some of the interrogativizing functions handled by ká in standard Japanese, both interrogative particles are present in the kinds of Japanese just mentioned, and...1975, Samuel E. Martin, “Predicate Adjuncts” (chapter 2), in A Reference Grammar of Japanese, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 87