In a message dated 10/8/2001 1:18:04 PM Central Daylight Time, jjllambias@hotmail.com writes:
(Of course {na'i} is a perfectly ok illocutionary answer, I suspect this is where we differ. I want to stick to the illocutionary answers, because they are a moe manageable set and include all the logical ones that will ever be useful. But they include a few that muck some things up as well (not really, but they take some work). <I'm not convinced. Consider this: "Does John know whether you have stopped beating your wife?" 1- "Yes, he does. He knows that I don't even have a wife." 2- "No, there's nothing for him to know about it. He knows that I don't even have a wife." I find (2) more realistic. If "I don't even have a wife" was one of the members of the whether-answer-set, then (1) should be the right answer.> I suppose the actual answer is { mi na'i co'u darxi lomi speni} (by theway, {darxi} by itself is not good for "beating" in htis context, nor is {co'u} for "stop") The fact that a question does not meet its presuppositions does not make it less of a question, it merely makes it one that has a peculiar correctanswer. Of course, the {na'i} answer my also allow in various expansions {noda speni mi} or "I never started being my wife" or.... |