Re: Question and Question Mark
Rob Zook 
Fri, 16 Jan 1998 13:15:51 -0600

At 12:57 PM 1/16/98 -0600, Saul Epstein wrote:
<snip>
>So there are two kinds of questions here. The first form could be stated
>
>    evaluate x
>
>where x is an expression whose truth or falsehood the speaker would like 
>to know. The second could be stated
<snip>
>indication of how to construct interrogative pronouns or articles, I have
>been assuming that the interrogative particle <qa> acts in a fashion
>analogous to the question mark, and to interrogative particles in those
>Terran languages that possess one (I can't think of them at the moment).

Well, then I believe we are operating on the same wavelength then. If
I understand you then, in your terms, one could also gloss qa X, as 
"evaluate x", correct?

So we need an interoggative particle for at least, each of the 
traditional seven questions: which, what, where, when, who, why and how.

Rob Z.
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