<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>It occurred to me today as an echo to the discussion about Sentence As Object, and Krankor’s example that erred toward accepting a question as the first sentence, that there might actually be a case for this with certain second verbs:</div><div><br></div><div>chay’ leSpal vIchenmoHlaH ‘e’ vISIv.</div><div><br></div><div>Or, to rewrite Krankor’s example:</div><div><br></div><div>chay’ Duj’a’ vIghajlaH DaH ‘e’ boSIvbe’choH.</div><div><br></div><div>Other verbs that would naturally have a question as their Direct Object, like {ghel} might also serve, if this proved to be acceptable.</div><div><br></div><div>There are no stated rules and no canon to support this. It just makes sense…</div><div><br></div><div>… and it would give Okrand an answer to how to effectively use {SIv}, which he wondered about so much in his interview...</div><br><div>
<meta charset="UTF-8"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>pItlh</div><div><br></div><div>charghwI’ ‘utlh</div><div>(ghaH, ghaH, -Daj)</div><div><br></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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