Re: [lojban-beginners] {pau} for indirect questions or an equivalent

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Friday 16 April 2010 08:39:15 Ian Johnson wrote:
> A possible question situation:
> .i pau ko'a gerku gi'i mlatu
> In this case {pau} is included to make it clear initially that the sentence
> is interrogative and possibly also for emphasis. What happens in the
> analogous indirect question:
> .i mi djuno lodu'u pau ko'a gerku gi'ikau mlatu
> Does {pau} modify the bridi or the abstraction? If the former, is there a
> way to label an abstraction as being an indirect question early?

{pau} modifies the immediately preceding word, which is {du'u}, so it modifies 
the abstraction.

Pierre
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