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Re: Trigger systems

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Monday, February 14, 2000, 14:06
At 14:29 14/02/00 +0100, you wrote:
> >Anyway... I'm also looking forward to seeing how this is handled >in Itakian, Christophe. >
Ha! two people interested in the trigger system in Itakian, that's enough for me to bore the rest of the list with a new long post about Itakian :) . It won't be right now however, as I still have to work a little on it. My problem is not the trigger system by itself, but the verbal system in general. It uses a lot of nominal sentences (even for actions like motion!), even with verbs (in a special nominal form) to make negative sentences. My main problem is to find out what nominal forms I should have (I'm thinking of something more original than infinitive and participle, even more original than noun of action, something like deverbal nouns for actor, patient, etc...). It reminds me of a question I wanted to ask: in the active sentence "I take the book", "I" is the agent (or actor, I think they are pretty much the same), "the book" is the patient. But in "I see the book", "I" is the experiencer, but how do you call "the book"? experiencee? And in "I look at the book", if "I" is clearly actor, "the book" doesn't seem like a patient for me. Is this also an experiencee? This question is important for me because I want to make a distinction between all those roles in my trigger system (that would allow me to use the same verb with various meanings :) ). Christophe Grandsire |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G. "Reality is just another point of view." homepage : http://rainbow.conlang.org