> > 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