In a message dated 9/6/2001 7:58:07 PM Central Daylight Time,
a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com writes:
I still don't see what the problem is. If you're not sure whether
clause C is relative or interrogative, try replacing it with one, C', that
has analogous meaning but a form that is unambiguous. That'll show you
whether C is relative or interrogative.
AFAICS, this is simply not a problem in the analysis of English, except
for beginners, and I don't see any evidence of relative/interrogative
ambiguities having contaminated our attempts to deal with Q-kau.
Circular test. If we knew for sure that some version was unambiguously one
or the other and analogous to the meaning of the first, then we wouldn't need
the test; we could do with however we decided the tester phrase.
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