This paper investigates a particular type of non-canonical what-questions in Vietnamese
called surprise-denial/disapproval questions. We first propose a finer-grained distinction
among subtypes of these special interrogatives, then compare them against other kinds of
non-standard questions to shed light on their overall distributional and interpretative
properties. We further demonstrate that they exhibit features not attested in languages with
apparent similar configurations (Mandarin and Taiwan Southern Min in particular), and …

This paper investigates a particular type of non-canonical what-questions in Vietnamese
called surprise-denial/disapproval questions. We first propose a finer-grained distinction
among subtypes of these special interrogatives, then compare them against other kinds of
non-standard questions to shed light on their overall distributional and interpretative
properties We further demonstrate that they exhibit features not attested in languages with
apparent similar configurations (Mandarin and Taiwan Southern Min in particular), and …