Re: Again trigger & stuff

Quoting Carsten Becker <post@...>:

> 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.
May be obvious, but I meant I doubt that they are _frequent_ 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.
Should be fine, as long as the sentence _has_ an actor!

                                                          Andreas

> *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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