Re: Q's abuot trigger again

Hello everyone again!

I have got some more questions:

(It's clear now that every "unit" in a sentence, such as "on the desk", can
take the trigger for indicating that it is focused in the sentence and thus
kind of a subject and it's also clear that the verb cannot be e.g. an
instrumental!)

The instrumental (or benefit, or location or what so ever) can be trigger of
course, but it would be quite illogical, if the what-so-ever was agent or
patient, right? The sentence would make no sense.

And what about sentences like "He sleeps in his bed"? "He" is the agent,
sleeps the action, and "in his bed" so to say the locative object. But
what's with the patient? I don't think it's marked anywhere.

Is it senseful to have more "cases" (or arguments or how they're called)
than instrumentive, benefactive, *ablative? (following Barry Garcia on
which arguments Tagalog makes use of).

*ablative: I'm not sure if this is the right term for that. Barry Garcia
wrote, "[...] Direction - to whom the action was directed towards" - but
AFAIK an ablative defines "indicating direction from or time when"
(http://phrontistery.50megs.com/cases.html), it's *from*, not *to*.

Thanks,
Carsten

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