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Re: Again trigger & stuff

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Monday, January 26, 2004, 17:59
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 > > -------------------------------------------------- > http://www.beckerscarsten.de/ > http://gitarrenklampfer.deviantart.com/ >