tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 02 16:32:36 1996
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Re: Embedded wh-questions
- From: Qorbeq <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Embedded wh-questions
- Date: Mon, 2 Dec 96 18:20:06 +0100 (BST)
- Organization: Parallel Dimensions
ghItlh Holtej:
> There's a question that's been gnawing at me for a while...
> Now, what I'm wondering is, how do we say, "who do you think the officer
> hit?"
>
> 'Iv qIp yaS 'e' DaQub?
>
> This doesn't feel right to me. It doesn't feel like we're questioning the
> matrix clause here. It feels more like "Who did the officer hit? You
> think that." Other attempts by my mind to twist this into a more
> reasonable form (semantically) fail syntactically.
I know that this avoids the issue but
"Who did the officer hit ?"
is essentially asking the same question as
"Who do you think the officer hit ?"
isn't it ? Hmmm. I guess you're being more specific about the "think" bit.
What about {-law'} ??
'Iv qIplaw' yaS ?
As another quick guess, I suppose you could use {-bogh} somehow and recast
it as "the person which you think the officer hit is who ?" but I haven't
got time now to come up with a working translation ... teatime beckons and
I've got to cook it ...
nI'jaj yInlIj, 'ej batlh bIHeghjaj.
Qorbeq
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