tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 02 17:18:22 1996
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RE: Embedded wh-questions
- From: "d'Armond Speers" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Embedded wh-questions
- Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 20:20:12 -0500
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On Monday, December 02, 1996 7:48 PM, Marc
Ruehlaender[SMTP:[email protected]] wrote:
> > Since wh-elements don't raise in Klingon, they remain 'in situ', we
don't
> > have such extraction effects. For instance,
> >
> > *Mary* parHa' 'Iv 'e' vISIv.
> > 'Iv parHa' *John* 'e' vISIv.
> >
> > To my ear, though these are syntactically correct, they sound like
> > gibberish. Again, my mind has a hard time raising the scope of the
> > question to the matrix level.
> >
> These just mean "I wonder who likes Mary" and "I wonder whom John
> likes" resp. to me. You probably are looking for ways to do the
> other two?
Yes, of course. That even lends credence to the question. When I see the
Klingon sentences above, I read them as "I wonder who likes Mary" and "I
wonder who John likes." I'm wondering about "who do you wonder whether
John likes" and "who do you wonder whether likes Mary" (though that latter
one is ungrammatical in English for unrelated reasons).
> How about
>
> 'Iv 'oH *Mary* parHa'bogh nuv'e' 'e' vISIv
> 'Iv 'oH nuv'e' parHa'bogh *John* 'e' vISIv
Well, perhaps /'Iv ghaH .../. But is this really that different from /'Iv
parHa' *John* 'e' vISIv/?
I think the question (problem) is clearer with the /'Iv qIp yaS 'e' DaQub/
examples.
> HomDoq
--Holtej
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