From cbmvax!uunet!CUVMB.BITNET!LOJBAN Sun Jun 21 08:00:04 1992 Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Sun, 21 Jun 92 08:00 EDT Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA09446; Sun, 21 Jun 92 07:35:19 EDT Received: from pucc.Princeton.EDU by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA11944; Sun, 21 Jun 92 07:12:29 -0400 Message-Id: <9206211112.AA11944@relay1.UU.NET> Received: from PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU by pucc.Princeton.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 6720; Sun, 21 Jun 92 07:12:01 EDT Received: by PUCC (Mailer R2.08 ptf027) id 1502; Sun, 21 Jun 92 07:11:48 EDT Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1992 12:10:33 BST Reply-To: Ivan A Derzhanski Sender: Lojban list From: Ivan A Derzhanski Subject: More Wind from the North To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann In-Reply-To: John Cowan's message of Thu, 18 Jun 1992 12:43:21 EDT <24747.9206181727@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Status: RO X-Status: > Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1992 12:43:21 EDT > From: John Cowan > > > Note that this makes {ma} equivalent to {makauxici'i}. > > How's that again? "kau" marks an indirect question of some level; no > amount of levels will create a direct question. The subscript of the {... kau} shows at what level the information is requested, counting inside out. A direct question is semantically equivalent to an indirect question embedded in a performative oof the form "I hereby want to know <...>". Ivan