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Re: Q's abuot trigger again

From:Carsten Becker @ school <post@...>
Date:Friday, December 12, 2003, 7:21
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 08:32:09 -0500, H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
wrote:

>On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:26:15PM +0100, Carsten Becker wrote: >> From: "Amanda Babcock" <ababcock@...> >[snip] >> I-TRIG write-AGT [an essay]-PAT [my pen]-INST >> [an essay]-TRIG write-PAT I-AGT [my pen]-INST >> [my pen]-TRIG write-INST I-AGT [an essay]-PAT => why is "to write" the >> instrument? >[snip] > >It is not; "to write" is the verb. The function of the trigger is marked >on the verb rather than on the trigger. I.e., if the trigger is >functioning as an intrument, then you inflect the *verb* for an >instrumental function; if the trigger is functioning as a patient, then >you inflect the *verb* for a patient function.
OK! OK! I must have mixed up all those silly affixes (-ee, -bla, ...). Thanks Christophe, too!