Re: THEORY: Tukang Besi (was Re: THEORY: Cross-Referencing the Arguments of Consecutive Verbs, And Similar Things)

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, "David J. Peterson" <dedalvs@G...>
wrote:
> I have kind of a response, but not a specific one.  I had some
> trouble trying to picture what you were describing.  Examples
> would be helpful.  :)
I gave examples of the waw-consecutive and the serial-verb earlier,
but:

I forgot to include examples about switch-reference.
Here is a place for a simple definition and discussion:
http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsSwitchR
eference.htm

Some examples are discussed in
http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/oceanic_linguistics/v038/38.2bradshaw.pdf

Also, each one of
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/AcaDepts/cl/slals/wp7/Huang.pdf
and
http://www.albany.edu/anthro/fac/broadwell/atomism.pdf
and
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~semconf/wiltschko.doc
and
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jcamacho/publications/switch-reference.pdf
and
http://www.uncc.edu/colleges/arts_and_sciences/language/secol/abstract
s/walker.htm
all have examples and discussions of switch-reference systems, though
I don't know which ones are better for the purposes of illustrating
my question.  (Or for that matter, whether any of them contains the
best available answer; if one of them does, either "the best
available answer" is pretty hard to understand, is not complete yet,
or takes an awfully long time to read --- probably all three.)

Don't look at all of them if you don't have the time.

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I hope somebody has fun with this.

Thank you.

Tom H.C. in MI