Re: Questions Concerning Grammar

In a message dated 7/30/04 9:58:55 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
trwier@UCHICAGO.EDU writes:

<< 'm more familiar with the way topicality works in Korean.  There,
 the topic marker and the subject marker are in complimentary
 distribution.  You can mark the subject as topic, or as subject,
 but not both.  Thus:

    (a) They-TOP saw the dog-ABS and ___ ran.
    (b) They-ERG saw the dog-ABS and ___ ran.
    (c) *They-TOP-ERG saw the dog-ABS and ___ ran.

 (Korean's nom/acc, but you get the idea.) >>

To increase the understanding of someone who knows some Korean but is less
familiar with linguistic terminology,could you put those sentences,or at least
the markers, into Korean?

John Leland