Re: Triggers and Voice
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 5, 2001, 7:34 |
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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 :)))) ...
Christophe.
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