Abstract
Both yes—no questions and interrogative-word (wh) questions provide for collapsing two or more interrogative sentences into a single sentence by other means than unreduced conjunction: Were you there and did you see what happened? (unreduced) Were you there and saw what happened? (reduced) Did they come early and did they get a seat? (unreduced) Did they come early and got a seat? (reduced) Who ate and what did he eat? (unreduced) Who ate what? (reduced)
I thank Michael Anthony (University College of North Wales) fofr a number of valuable suggestions. He is not responsible for the use to which I have put them.
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Bolinger, D. (1978). Asking More Than One Thing at a Time. In: Hiż, H. (eds) Questions. Synthese Language Library, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9509-3_4
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