An analysis of the Q–A unities constructed by the interrogative pronoun <i>какой</i>
Journal: Language and Semiotic Studies
Year: 2022

Abstract Language is a symbolic system consisting of the signifier and the signified. There is an asymmetrical binary correspondence between them, which is also widespread in Russian linguistics. There are two main types of interrogative sentence formed by the interrogative pronoun какой . Traditional lexicography and grammar have limitations in their understanding of какой and of the interrogative sentences it forms. The analysis of such syntactic phenomena should be included in the Q–A unity,