Re: subordinate interrogatives

["Mark E. Shoulson" <shoulson@CS.COLUMBIA.EDU>]

>Date:         Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:29:09 -0300
>From: "Jorge J. Llambias" <jorge%INTERMEDIA.COM.AR@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
>
>Excellent! Excelentisimo!
>
>Let's see now, we can also do {mokau}:
>
>        ko'a djuno ku'au mi mo kau
>        she  knows that  I  Qu N.I.F.
>        "She knows what I am."
>
>Which expands to:
>
>        ro bu'a zo'u ge da jei zei jei gi ko'a djuno ku'au
>        da jei mi bu'a
>        "For every F(), there is something that is a truth value and
>        that she thinks is the truth value of the proposition F(mi)."

This reminds me of when I first ran into these second-order propositions, I
think with a sentence in the Book of Esther where it says "For she had told
the King what he (Mordecai) was to her."  I don't think we needed a ku'au
for it.

~mark