Re: Again trigger & stuff

From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 8:30 PM
Subject: Re: Again trigger & stuff


> Quoting Carsten Becker <post@...>:
[snip]
> We've been told there are grammatical Tagalog sentences without a trigger,
but
> my understanding is you normally always have one. I doubt that truly
"neutral"
> sentences are rare in practice. Depends, of course, a bit of what
qualifies an
> NP for triggerhood; in Tagalog, if I've got it right, it's a combination
of
> emphasis and theme-hood.
>
>                                                         Andreas
>
Mhm. I see. Nevertheless, you could define that the actor is triggered in
such situations, that'd be the same effect as our "subject" I think. *sigh*
I still think too much with the IE point of view ...
Concerning updates and further working on that language, I think that'll
have to wait until this year's easter holidays (from 3rd to 18th April
2004). Being inactive for some time is not bad either: I think it's like
when a piece of music you're playing is still a bit too difficult or you
cannot stand it anymore because you've practiced so much, you put it away
for some time. And while you do not play this piece, you learn e.g. other
techniques so that when you start to play the old piece again after some
months, it's easier for you. Although I'm not conlanging at the moment, I
still keep tuned to the list of course!

Carsten Becker

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