Re: New Site: New Language: Tyl-Sjok

Henrik Theiling wrote:

> Hmm, yeah, but the agent slot is assigned by control in Tyl-Sjok, not
> by whether its a state or dynamic.  E.g. in `Peter is violent' (ok,
> you could say that's a durative action (l. violans...)), `Peter' is
> agent.  Tyl-Sjok distinguishes this precisely.  Some verbs even have a
> floating assignment depending on meaning:
>
>     stupid.VERB peter.PATIENT
>     Peter is stupid. (inherently)
> vs.
>     Peter.AGENT stupid.VERB.
>     Peter is stupid. (but he is at least in potential control)
Ha! This is *exactly* like in Rinya! The only difference is that
the AGT argument follows the verb and the PAT argument precedes
it. But I have the control vs. non-control difference, and inherent
vs. temporary state, etc. I'm pretty sure I've written about this
to the list. Lemme see... Ah, there it is:

  jinea        danielin
  is:peculiar  daniel:AGT
  'Daniel is peculiar (deliberatly and it makes him look stupid).'

  daniel      jinea
  daniel:PAT  is:peculiar
  'Daniel is peculiar (from birth, and that makes him cool).'

I have borrowed most of it from Central Pomo. Where did you get
your influences from?

This is very cool! :)

||| daniel

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