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From:<jcowan@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 25, 2004, 18:19
Mark P. Line scripsit:

> Triggers work in two parts: you use a "trigger" morpheme to mark a clause > constituent (commonly a noun) as focused, and you mark the "role" (e.g. > agent, patient, location, etc.) of this triggered (focused) constituent > somewhere else in the clause. In Tagalog, the role is marked by affixes on > the verb. Note that triggers implement both a topic/focus function and a > valence assignment function.
The role assignment is uncontroversial, but the question of focus is not; there are supposedly counterexamples to the claim that the trigger argument is always the focus. -- John Cowan www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com jcowan@reutershealth.com "'My young friend, if you do not now, immediately and instantly, pull as hard as ever you can, it is my opinion that your acquaintance in the large-pattern leather ulster' (and by this he meant the Crocodile) 'will jerk you into yonder limpid stream before you can say Jack Robinson.'" --the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake

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