Re: Trigger systems

At 17:42 16/02/00 +0100, you wrote:
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>> Because the adjective "deverbal" is rather frequent, at least in French
>> linguistics. And as for deverbal nouns, just think of the mas.dar (s.:
>> emphatic s) or noun of action of Classical Arabic. :)
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>Sorry, I don't know much about this, but at least I get an idea. Would
>you care to explain further? :)
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I don't know that much, but IIRC the mas.dar of a verb in Arabic is a kind
of "noun of action", like "the action of..." sometimes not far from an
English gerund, like for instance in English 'the building of a house'. I
will check in my Arabic grammar to give you a more precise definition.
Another example of deverbal nouns are the the 'nouns of agent/actor' of PIE
(nouns in *-ter and *-tor) that Benveniste studied in his "Noms d'agent et
noms d'action en Indo-Européen". I didn't read the book but I heard a lot
about it. Maybe someone knowing more than me in PIE could give you examples.

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>> It's kinda nice yeah.
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>It should be. It was your idea! :)
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Really? I cannot remember :((( .

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>> Okay, I show that as soon as possible (just enough time to make the role
>> mapping :) ).
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>No rush. I was only kidding. We don't want to see any hasty work here! ;)
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Don't worry for that :) .

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