Re: Theta Role Question
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 17, 2006, 19:22 |
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Hallo!
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:53:17 +0200, Carsten Becker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a question regarding the roles in this
> construction:
>
> Music is his passion.
>
> How should this construction be analyzed? I would translate
> this sentence as
>
> Tingrāng dikunang iyaena.
> Music.A passion.A 3s.m.GEN
>
> Into Ayeri, although I do not feel well with marking both
> NPs as Agents. Actually, I think, there is no agent, and
> both nouns should be best left unmarked, but that seems odd
> as well.
I don't know what to call it, but there are certainly no *agents* involved
here. Neither 'music' nor 'his passion' is an agent. The copula is as
stative as a verb can positively be.
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