Re: Question and Question Mark
McReynolds 
Fri, 16 Jan 1998 21:54:06 -0600

-----Original Message-----
From: Saul Epstein <sepstein*johnco,cc,ks,us>
To: vulcan-linguistics*shikahr,com,inter,net
<vulcan-linguistics*shikahr,com,inter,net>
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: Question and Question Mark

>Since <qa> may be a bound or a free particle, it may be the case that a
free
><qa>, particularly at the beginning of a sentence or clause, indicates a
>true-false question, while a bound <qa> attached to a pronoun makes that
>pronoun represent a blank in a fill-in-the-blank question.
>
>qaw     who(m)         qawl     who(f)         qan     which or what
>qawhi   whom(m)        qawlhi   whom(f)        qanhi   which or what
>qawti   by whom(m)     qawlti   by whom(f)     qanti   by which or how
>qawha   to whom(m)     qawlha   to whom(f)     qanha   to which or why
>qawtca  from whom(m)   qawltca  from whom(f)   qantca  from which or why
>qawat   whose(m)       qawlat   whose(f)       qanat   of which
>qawhe   in whom(m)     qawlhe   in whom(f)     qanhe   in which or where
>
>So, "Where are you going?" could be something like
>
>    s'imroi qanha
>    thou-go ?-it-DATIVE
>
>    (th'imroy) cikaarha
>    (I-go) Shikahr-DATIVE

Sounds good to me!

-McReynolds