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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Canon for answering negative questions
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On May 3, 2014, at 6:32 PM, "Robyn Stewart" <<a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-ca"><font face="Calibri">What canon do we have...</font></span></p></div></blockquote><div>I can't think of anything that tells us with authority how it is done. I can point to non-negative question/answer pairs that replace the -'a' with the HIja' or ghobe' exclamation and repeat the rest of the sentence, and that's what I would use as a guide.</div><div><br></div><div>The actual situation is likely to be similar to English, where neither answer is adequately unambiguous.</div><div><br></div><div>SuQochbe'a'? (I am least uncomfortable treating {Qochbe'} as the action and answering {HIja', jIQochbe'}.)</div><div><br></div><div>-- ghunchu'wI' </div></body></html>_______________________________________________
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