Timeline for How to mark accusative for correlatives of quantity? Kiel marki akuzativon ĉe "...iom"-aj tabelvortoj?
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| Oct 8, 2019 at 7:02 | comment | added | Juha Metsäkallas | Bone, while the Esperanto sentence might technically be correct (I'm not skilled enough to judge that), I have a gut feeling, that something is off in it. Since Esperanto is aimed to ease communication between people, one should avoid such ambiguities and make roles visible. | |
| Oct 7, 2019 at 21:07 | comment | added | das-g♦ | (Also, I first constructed the ambiguous Esperanto question and then tried to translate the two possible meanings unambiguously to English, not the other way around. So the Esperanto question shouldn't suffer from being being a translation of maybe poorly worded English. Rather it was deliberately constructed to be ambiguous for the sake of serving as a specific example within this grammar question.) | |
| Oct 7, 2019 at 18:59 | comment | added | das-g♦ | Actually, the English questions here are (supposed to be) completely unambiguous, despite the lack of role markings and despite questions in English tending towards a word order that puts the question word ("how") first, regardless of whether it is part of the object or subject. Because of number agreement between subject and verb, "how much workers" is must be subject of question (a), and "that much work" must be subject of question (b). | |
| Oct 7, 2019 at 7:40 | history | answered | Juha Metsäkallas | CC BY-SA 4.0 |