Beyond proper, the book explores a special class of -expressions in some in-situ languages which give rise to unexpected -construals with a touch of whining force. The objective is to explain the unusual syntactic position of these -expressions as well as their association with peculiar pragmatics. The questions are addressed for Cantonese: are -initial sentences genuine questions? To what extent are Cantonese -initial sentences similar to -initial sentences in Mandarin? Beside these -as- questions, a special class of rhetorical questions, the doubly-marked interrogatives in Hebrew, come under scrutiny. Why is ‘why’ unique also concerns the interface with prosody and several experimental studies investigate precisely this aspect.