Re: jei

[jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU]

> Nora would probably disagree, and she invented kau if I recall.  She even
> considers calling them "indirect questions" to be malglico, and preferred
> to use null/netral values like"dakau"instead of "makau"  I would have to
> dig to find out, but I think she had examples where she thought thinking of
> these things as a form of 'question' was misleading as to their nature.

I'd be very interested to see those examples.


> You on the other hand seem to feel that indirection always implies a question.
> No easy way to settle it. So lets just agree to disagree until we can find
> an example where each other's understandings do not work.

What is your understanding? All you've said is that you don't like to call
them indirect questions, how can I find an example where that doesn't work?


Jorge