Re: Triggers and Voice
| From: | Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 3, 2001, 5:20 |
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CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>Actor and patient focus do indeed work like active and passive voice
>respectively. But only to the extent that they promote the actor and
>patient as subject/topic/focus. Their main difference is that the
>valency of the verb in a voice system changes but does not in a trigger
>system. So they are indeed not quite active and passive voices.
This is helping, yes, i'm not quite sure i get verb valency, but i think
it's crystalizing. While we're on the topic, how do the other triggers
work, like the locative, beneficial, and instrumental?
Kristian is a godsend on this list :)
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