Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Thinking in Triqui, part 3

In this previous post and this previous post, I discussed the unusual thinking construction in Copala Triqui.  The examples for today show the combination of a question and the thinking construction.   In Triqui, ga is the usual question particle for wh-questions, and na' is for yes-no questions.  Note that in these examples, the choice of question particle is sensitive to the main question -- not the 'do you think' part of the sentence.

That seems to imply to me that the constituency has the  NP portion as a parenthetical, and the question particle goes with the main sentence, roughly

[abc [rá NP] question particle]


where abc represents the clause that is being thought about.




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