syntactic blend? or what?

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

from an NPR news bulletin, 2/16/07:

[They] doubt how much North Korea is willing to give up.

   ok: They doubt that North Korea is willing to give much up.

   or: They  wonder/don't know  how much North Korea is willing to
give up.

   but not both.

arnold

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