Re: Triggers and Voice

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>Notice how the number of core arguments does not change from one
>trigger form to another. All of the above sentences have only one
>core argument: the argument in focus. All other arguments are
>oblique. If this were a voice system, we would expect to see a
>change in the number of core arguments from one form to another.
>Notice how a change in topicality in English would change the
>number of core arguments:
Ahh, now it crystalizes into a perfectly clear, useable form :). I
understand what valency means now. This makes using triggers a lot easier
now ;).