“The hell is that guy doing?”: predator-truncated QuEx

The word from predators, in this Jake Likes Onions cartoon (by Jake Thompson): (#1) Title: “Maybe he’s running from the truth” Predator 2 omits the what of what the hell (in a Wh, or constituent, question What is that guy doing? with the question word what emphatically extended by the expletive the hell). About the syntax, and … Continue reading “The hell is that guy doing?”: predator-truncated QuEx