Return-Path: Received: from kantti.helsinki.fi by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0rPIFV-00007NC; Wed, 4 Jan 95 01:02 EET Received: from fiport.funet.fi (fiport.funet.fi [128.214.109.150]) by kantti.helsinki.fi (8.6.9/8.6.5) with ESMTP id BAA17804 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 01:02:40 +0200 Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (MAILER@SEARN) by FIPORT.FUNET.FI (PMDF V4.3-13 #2494) id <01HLFDLCLI400010VM@FIPORT.FUNET.FI>; Tue, 03 Jan 1995 23:01:52 +0200 (EET) Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin LISTSERV@SEARN) by SEARN.SUNET.SE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 8775; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 23:58:33 +0100 Date: Tue, 03 Jan 1995 15:14:17 -0500 From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: replies mainly re "ka" In-reply-to: <199412222024.AA10807@nfs2.digex.net> from "ucleaar" at Dec 22, 94 07:57:44 pm Sender: Lojban list To: Veijo Vilva Reply-to: Logical Language Group Message-id: <01HLFDLDL6S60010VM@FIPORT.FUNET.FI> X-Envelope-to: veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-To: Lojban List MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 904 Lines: 21 la .and. joi la xorxes. cusku be di'e casnu > > > (a) I used "dakau", not "makau". > > Is there any difference between them? The grammar papers say they are > > synonymous. > > I know a question-word can be followed by kau, and that goes into english > as an interrogative pronoun. But how what that work for "da kau"? Is it > just "da kau" that can get this interrogativoid interpretation,, or > does it apply to other non-Q words when followed by kau? Actually, any appropriate constituent can be marked by "kau". If it has a content, that means the answer to the indirect question is suggested (but not asserted) to be the referent. If it has no content of its own, e.g. "ma" or "da" or "zo'e" for sumti, then we have an indirect question with no pre- (or post-) supposition. -- John Cowan sharing account for now e'osai ko sarji la lojban.