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Re: Trigger systems

From:daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 16, 2000, 16:42
Christophe a écrit:

> Daniel: > > Deverbal nouns? Of everyone on this list, you have the most unusual > > grammatical things (at least imho :). I don't know if you come up > > with them yourself or if there actually is such a thing out there.
> Is the thing itself or the name I give it that you find unusual? :)
Actually both.
> 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. :)
Sorry, I don't know much about this, but at least I get an idea. Would you care to explain further? :)
> > I had the same problem when I tried to come up with cases for Rinya. > > I didn't know what case to assign to 'the experienced' (Btw, wasn't that > > you Christophe? The word 'originative' comes to mind...). Anyway, I ended > > up with ablative (motion from) because if you look at it metaphorically it > > kinda makes sense.
> It's kinda nice yeah.
It should be. It was your idea! :)
> > PS2. Hurry with trigger system of Itakian! We all.EXP wanna see it.SRC now! > > Huuuuurrrrryyyyyy!!!!! :) I should really sleep now...
> Okay, I show that as soon as possible (just enough time to make the role > mapping :) ).
No rush. I was only kidding. We don't want to see any hasty work here! ;) Daniel