who's your daddy?

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Fri Oct 15 19:29:58 UTC 2004


let me try to sum up things so far.  we have two different (groups of)
uses for this question.

one, as an information question, asking 'who are your people?', 'what's
your ancestry?'.

two, as a rhetorical question, asking 'who do you belong to?', 'who
owns you?', 'who dominates you?', with the conveyed answer "me" or
"us".

arnold



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