Re: THEORY: The fourth person

(first day online in a week because of sasser)

Viktor Orenji <vmed@...> wrote:

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're very right. The "if" is definitively implied.

<<<
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.
>>>
Yes, the general topic Tetsu is the same but the second topic "senkou" is
different.

<<<
Otoko wa soto de hataraite, onna wa uchi de hataraku.
Men work outside and women work inside.
>>>
You're right again. Here it's like ~ippou/~tahou.
OK, so I was wrong--no contest here.
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