Date:  Thu, 11 Dec 1997 13:19:50 -0500 (EST)
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Reply-To: And Rosta <a.rosta@UCLAN.AC.UK>
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From: And Rosta <a.rosta@UCLAN.AC.UK>
Organization: University of Central Lancashire
Subject:      Re: GLI Re: Indirect questions
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To: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
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Lojbab:
> >{kucli} has two meanings, one where the x2 is an indirect
> >question, and one where it isn't. {kucli da} doesn't
> >mean {djica le nu/du'u djuno da}, but {kucli lo nu xu kau}
> >does mean {djica lo nu djuno lo nu xu kau}.
>
> When kucli is a non-indorect question (usually also a non-abstract)
> it ios likely that it can be taken as an open-ended set of unarticulated
> indirect questions.
>
> If I say "mi kucli la kuark." , I probably could ask a bunch of questions, but
> I am also intersted in the answers to the questions that I don't know enough
> to ask, and indeed might never know enough to ask.

Doubtless you are correct, but nonetheless, the truth-conditional
meaning of {kucli} varies according to whether its x2 is an
indirect question. This is in contrast to {djuno}, where has
an x2/x3 distinction that {kucli} doesn't; x2 of djuno is
always a proposition.

--And