From cowan@ccil.org Thu Aug 09 22:36:34 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 10 Aug 2001 05:36:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 87813 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2001 05:36:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 10 Aug 2001 05:36:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta1 with SMTP; 10 Aug 2001 05:36:33 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15V4yV-0004wR-00; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 01:36:47 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] Another preliminary note on Indirect Questions In-Reply-To: <9e.186b2269.28a34f4b@aol.com> from "pycyn@aol.com" at "Aug 8, 2001 10:28:27 pm" To: pycyn@aol.com Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 01:36:47 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan pycyn@aol.com scripsit: > 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. So you think it impossible for a cat to know how many kittens it has? I think "linguistic" is le mot injuste. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter