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Re: Triggeriness ...

From:Isidora Zamora <isidora@...>
Date:Friday, December 12, 2003, 21:31
> > If you can trigger on ~focus > > ~subjectivize LOC et al. , where are you then? A LOC is neither an A nor a > > P. And presumably in a trigger conlang, you could trigger on any role you > > wanted to (maybe within limits....)-- try GEN > > > > I stole John's mango > > John_TRIG stole-GEN mango-P I-A > > (it seems possible, but I've no idea how it could be equivalently > translated > > into e.g. Engl., as we can paraphrase Pool-TRIG bathe-LOC I-A [pool swam-in > > [by] me] =~ a pool is where I swam (?)---maybe 'John is the person whose > > mango I stole'????) > >"John's is the mango which I stole" is the best this xenophone can come up >with.
"It is John's mango that I stole" is the first thing that I came up with and the one which sounds smoothest to me. Isidora

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Roger Mills <romilly@...>