[Tlhingan-hol] Canon for answering negative questions

[De'vID]

Qov:
> What canon do we have indicating whether the answer to a negative
question like :
>
> 'umbe''a' loDHom?
>
> would be
>
> HIja’, ‘um.
>
> or
> ghobe’, ‘um.

I don't have any canon, but what reason is there to think it wouldn't be
{HIja', 'umbe'} to begin with? The answer to {'umchoH'a'} is {HIja',
'umchoH}, and the answer to {belHa''a'} is {HIja', belHa'}, etc. I can't
think of any reason {-be'} should behave differently than any other suffix
in how it interacts with {-'a'}.

Qov:
> All I can think of is cheDuQchugh mareghbe’’a’? which is of course
rhetorical.

ghobe', mareghbej.

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