RE: indirect questions

[reciproc@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca]

la .and pu ciske di'e

> Snags include
> 
> 1. It just passes the problem, raising the question of the logical
> structure of "x is answer to question y".

I was going to respond to that, but then I thought too much and got a
headache...

> 2. And anyway, it doesn't work:
>    "Johns wonders who came" 
>    "John wonders about the answer to the question 'Who came?' ." 
>    The answer to the question is Jane (or "Jane")
> 
> ergo
> 
>   John wonders (about) Jane/"Jane"
> 
> -- not a desirable inference.

One wonders whether a kau in a predicate like "kucli" has different 
semantics than one somewhere else. Most other indirect questions can,
after all, be rewritten in the way BestATN suggests, regardless of whether
it helps.

	co'omi'e xarmuj.