“How do you think it should be done?” About the thematic-rematic structure of a certain type of interrogative sentences

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to present an analysis of the thematic-rematic structure of  Polish equivalents of interrogative sentences such as What do you think he had done?,  namely of questions about some component of subordinate sentence clause. In Polish,  an interrogative pronoun has to be placed within the subordinate clause (it can be  moved to the beginning of the sentence, but such an operation is connected with the  contrastive intonation of the pronoun). The author claims that questions of the given  type are to be interpret just as other wh-questions. She cites the theory of thematicrematic  structure of questions of A. Bogusławski and modifies this theory in order  to account for interrogative sentences with counter-factive predicates, such as to lie.