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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Canon for answering negative questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (De'vID)
Sun May 4 16:59:26 2014
In-Reply-To: <001501cf671f$980c1710$c8244530$@flyingstart.ca>
Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 17:14:36 +0200
From: "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com>
To: KLI <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
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Qov:
> What canon do we have indicating whether the answer to a negative
question like :
>
> 'umbe''a' loDHom?
>
> would be
>
> HIja=E2=80=99, =E2=80=98um.
>
> or
> ghobe=E2=80=99, =E2=80=98um.
I don't have any canon, but what reason is there to think it wouldn't be
{HIja', 'umbe'} to begin with? The answer to {'umchoH'a'} is {HIja',
'umchoH}, and the answer to {belHa''a'} is {HIja', belHa'}, etc. I can't
think of any reason {-be'} should behave differently than any other suffix
in how it interacts with {-'a'}.
Qov:
> All I can think of is cheDuQchugh mareghbe=E2=80=99=E2=80=99a=E2=80=99? w=
hich is of course
rhetorical.
ghobe', mareghbej.
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<p dir=3D"ltr"><br>
Qov:<br>
> What canon do we have indicating whether the answer to a negative ques=
tion like :<br>
><br>
> 'umbe''a' loDHom?<br>
><br>
> would be<br>
><br>
> HIja=E2=80=99, =E2=80=98um.<br>
><br>
> or<br>
> ghobe=E2=80=99, =E2=80=98um.</p>
<p dir=3D"ltr">I don't have any canon, but what reason is there to thin=
k it wouldn't be {HIja', 'umbe'} to begin with? The answer =
to {'umchoH'a'} is {HIja', 'umchoH}, and the answer to =
{belHa''a'} is {HIja', belHa'}, etc. I can't think =
of any reason {-be'} should behave differently than any other suffix in=
how it interacts with {-'a'}.</p>
<p dir=3D"ltr">Qov:<br>
> All I can think of is cheDuQchugh mareghbe=E2=80=99=E2=80=99a=E2=80=99=
? which is of course rhetorical.</p>
<p dir=3D"ltr">ghobe', mareghbej.</p>
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