Re: Focus, interrogatives

At 15:17 31/05/99 -0700, you wrote:

[snip of very interesting stuff]

>
>In the meantime... do I front or not front the interrogative in an
>OSV/SOV
>language?
>
        Why not just leave the interrogative in place, that's to say where the
answer should be? I don't have any statistics but it seems that fronting
the interrogative is mainly an Indo-European feature. Japanese (SOV) does
very well without it.

        BTW, in an interrogative sentence, what is an interrogative? Focus
(strange, it doesn't give any new information, it asks for one)? Topic
(also strange, it's not the thing we're talking about)? Because if you can
determine that, the place of the interrogative will be easier to choose.

>Sally
>
>
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