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Re: "triggers et al" as I presently understand them

From:Rodlox <rodlox@...>
Date:Friday, November 19, 2004, 23:06
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From: Amanda Babcock Furrow <>
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Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: "triggers et al" as I presently understand them


> On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 06:09:39PM +0200, Rodlox wrote: > > > I think the example provided (no, don't remember which post) had
writing,
> > pen, and other related items under a single word, which could be
specified
> > which one by use of a (trigger(?)) word. > > Eureka! > > The message Rodlox is thinking of is: > >
http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0312B&L=conlang&P=R7340 thank you.
> Rodlox, go back and read that again.
I tried . . . and got double vision. I'll try again soon. thank you for finding it!!
> I think you completely > misunderstood it > (and came up with an even cooler idea,
I posted it here in this group..._C-23...based on our discussions in-list_
> but which is > not a trigger!)
oh. sorry.
> The trigger never changes the meaning of any of > the words in Roger's example sentences (see the correct sentences > in the paragraph beginning with "I think you're ignoring your > own invented morphology"). I'd be happy to attempt to clarify > anything that is not making sense to you in that message.
okay.
> On the other hand, just keep your original idea and give it a new name :)
thus far, Polynymic Selectives. bad name? :)

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Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>Disambiguating polysemy (was: "triggers et al" as I presently understand them)