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<DIV>Yes, and in Slavic too, and I believe in Japanese (?) and even in the probably Yiddish-influenced English of many of the people I grew up with (You've got what to eat? i.e. do you have something to eat, when sending someone off on an outing where they might want to take a snack along) — this doesn't make it any less interesting, however! On the contrary, something this widespread is obviously a deep and significant phenomenon; not something that just happened to occur in one language, but something that's happened over and over in the history of human languages. </DIV>
<DIV>Catherine<BR><BR>>>> ti@fa-kuan.muc.de 9/30/2005 12:32 PM >>><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="COLOR: #000000">> (Willem): As far as interrogative-indefinites are concerned, I think you will find <BR>the phenomenon quite common cross-linguistically. Apache, and I think <BR>most if not all Athabascan languages, also have <BR>interrogative-indefinites. :} <<<BR><BR>This phenomenon even exists in good old (esp. vernacular) German:<BR><BR>"Was sagst du da?" (What are you saying here?) vs. "Ich sag' dir was." <BR>(I tell you something).<BR>"Wo warst du denn?" (Where have you been?) vs. "Ich bin wo gewesen, wo's <BR>sehr schön war." (I was somewhere where it's been very nice) etc.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Alfred<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>