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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] 'arDaq

Brad Wilson ([email protected]) [KLI Member]



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<div style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><font color="black" size="2"><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">&gt;&gt;&gt; ghItlh Steven Boozer:</font></tt></pre><pre style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><tt>If I ask, "Which door do you choose?", it's still simple {lojmIt 'arDIch DawIv?} 
You answer "I choose the third door." {lojmIt wejDIch vIwIv.}

There doesn't seem to be a way to ask the question that is answered by {lojmIt wej vIwIv}. "I choose door #3."</tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">&gt;&gt;&gt;</font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Is there are requirement that if the question uses {'arDIch} that the answer must use {number-DIch}?</font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">It would seem that {-DIch} is a "sequential" marker that identifies its headword either by appearance to the speaker, or importance, or by some other criterion.</font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">To elicit a response of {lojmIt wej vIwIv}, a question of the form {lojmIt DawIv 'e' yIngu'} would be in order (which isn't a question at all).</font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">gheyIl</font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
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