L’indicatore di forza di interrogazione di alcuni dialetti settentrionali tra affisso e clitico.

Research on interrogative structures has been receiving increased attention in the framework of speech act theory. However, the description of the cluster of morphosyntactic features (clitics, particles, moods, word order variation, etc.) which, without any reliance on the extralinguistic context, permits the interpretation of an utterance as a question is very often unsatisfactory. In some cases, little theoretical consideration has been paid to the series of variations concerning the categories and strategies involved. In this paper I highlight a series of contradictions in the categorization of the Question Markers belonging to many North-Eastern Italian dialects and I propose a solution to this puzzling problem