tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 02 17:50:37 1996
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RE: Embedded wh-questions
- From: "HurghwI'" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Embedded wh-questions
- Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 19:52:40 -0600
At 03:37 PM 12/2/96 -0800, you wrote:
>December 02, 1996 1:06 PM, jatlh Holtej:
>
>> 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.
>
>It's interesting: are you suggesting that we don't like this because of
>English bias (that of moving the question word up to the matrix clause)? I'd
>like to hear more . . .
>
>Of course, I'd just say {'Iv qIp yaS? yIngu'!}
It's probably illegal, but what about tacking something onto {'Iv}?
'Ivlaw' qIp yaS?
-HurghwI'
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