| It seems a stupid point, but indirect questions are by definition questions
in indirect discourse. Consequently *they* can only occur as arguments of predicates of linguistic activity, where it would be possible to use direct discourse -- a quote -- instead. What the other things we are mainly talking about may be and how they are related (if at all) to indirect questions, needs to be worked out. The first step toward that is probably getting indirect questions in the ordinary sense out of the way and then getting some clear cases of the other things. If there are any. |