Clausal Question-Answer Pairs:Evidence from ASL
Kathryn C. Davidson, Ivano Caponigro, Rachel I. Mayberry · 2008
Questions and their answers typically take the form of two separate sentences (or smaller units) at the level of discourse, but could they ever combine to form a single clause? In this paper we argue that they can, using evidence from a construction in American Sign Language that we call a Clausal