Re: Triggers and Voice

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> En réponse à Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>:
>
> >
> > Why i asked the question is, in Tagalog, i've read that the actor
> > focus
> > works something like active voice, and the object focus works
> > something
> > like passive voice, but not quite.
> >
>
> IIRC, I've seen a description of Tagalog which treats the active triggering
> as "active voice" and all the other triggerings as "passive voice", describing
> thus that Tagalog has one active voice and plenty of passive voices! Of course,
> this was a poor interpretation designed by someone who desperately tried to fit
> Tagalog grammar into Western standards, not understanding anything about it.
> Must have been a French grammarian :)))) ...
That... or the grammarian was only trying to make the description of
Tagalog grammar understable to the average Westerner.

-kristian- 8)

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