Interrogation

1. Introduction
2. Absolute interrogatives
         a) Non-manual components
         b) ‘Yes-no’ sign
         c) Repetition of the pronominal sign
         d) Alternative interrogatives
3. Partial interrogatives
         a) Non-manual component
         b) Interrogative signs
4. Rhetorical questions

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The basic structure of this construction consists of a partial question followed by the imagined answer to the same, signed immediately after. This rhetorical question is not eliciting information from the interlocutor, but rather emphasizing the constituent that follows –that is, the imagined answer.