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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Canon for answering negative questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI')
Sun May 4 15:59:27 2014
From: ghunchu'wI' <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
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Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 13:32:36 -0400
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On May 3, 2014, at 6:32 PM, "Robyn Stewart" <robyn@flyingstart.ca> wrote:
> What canon do we have...
>=20
I can't think of anything that tells us with authority how it is done. I can=
point to non-negative question/answer pairs that replace the -'a' with the H=
Ija' or ghobe' exclamation and repeat the rest of the sentence, and that's w=
hat I would use as a guide.
The actual situation is likely to be similar to English, where neither answe=
r is adequately unambiguous.
SuQochbe'a'? (I am least uncomfortable treating {Qochbe'} as the action and a=
nswering {HIja', jIQochbe'}.)
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<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On May 3, 2014, at 6:32 PM, "Robyn Stewart" <<a href="mailto:robyn@flyingstart.ca">robyn@flyingstart.ca</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-ca"><font face="Calibri">What canon do we have...</font></span></p></div></blockquote><div>I can't think of anything that tells us with authority how it is done. I can point to non-negative question/answer pairs that replace the -'a' with the HIja' or ghobe' exclamation and repeat the rest of the sentence, and that's what I would use as a guide.</div><div><br></div><div>The actual situation is likely to be similar to English, where neither answer is adequately unambiguous.</div><div><br></div><div>SuQochbe'a'? (I am least uncomfortable treating {Qochbe'} as the action and answering {HIja', jIQochbe'}.)</div><div><br></div><div>-- ghunchu'wI' </div></body></html>
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