Message-ID: <3469EF6D.44BE@locke.ccil.org> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 13:03:25 -0500 From: John Cowan Organization: Lojban Peripheral X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lojban List Subject: Re: kau References: <199711121151.GAA29738@locke.ccil.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 769 X-From-Space-Date: Wed Nov 12 13:03:26 1997 X-From-Space-Address: - And Rosta wrote: > Can someone tell me where {kau} is discussed in Woldemar? - Or > if not, can someone tell me what it means? Chapter 8, Section 11. > I mean {kau} in general, not just after question words. "kau" can be used after non-question words, in which case the word it is attached to is suggested as the answer to the indirect question, as in "I wonder whether it was John who shot Alice", which uses "la djan. kau" What is not defined is the use of "kau" outside "du'u" abstractions. > I seem to recall that originally kau was introduced for some > more general purpose and only latterly became restricted > in usage as a marker of indirect questions. Not AFAIK. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban