Re: THEORY: The fourth person

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 07:11:39 +0200, takatunu <takatunu@...> wrote:

>
>In Japanese the linking tag between two predicates whose subjects are
>different people is (in theory) -to instead of -te/de:
>
>Kare wa uta wo utau to kanojo wa odoru.
>He sings and (then) she dances.
>
Really?  To me, this sentence means "If he sings, then she dances."

You can use -te for linking phrases with different subjects:

Tetsu wa ima daigaku sannen de senkou wa nihonbungaku desu.
Tetsu is a junior at college now and his major is Japanese literature.

Otoko wa soto de hataraite, onna wa uchi de hataraku.
Men work outside and women work inside.

--Viktor