Re: Humbly beg a critique of a role-marking system for my language.

--- Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...>
schrieb:
> Sorry for the long quotations!
>
> On Thursday 19 August 2004 18:30, Steven Williams
> wrote:
>
>  > Essentially, it's three core roles are the
> 'agent'...
>
> What about this? I found this mail when reading
> mails that kept unread for ages.
>
> On Wednesday 25 February 2004 00:24, John Quijada
> wrote:
>
>  > Ithkuil divides up the usual S/A/P distinction
into nine distinct cases, corresponding to the
semantic roles of AGENT, ENABLER, SELF-MOTIVATOR,
PATIENT, FORCE, STIMULUS, CONTENT, EXPERIENCER, and
INSTRUMENT, explained...

Awesome! Truth be told, I was trying to figure out
what to call the role that wasn't neither the agent
nor patient, and had only a roughish idea of the
actual function, so it hit upon me a few months ago to
call it the 'experiencer' (just a term I pulled out of
the great big hat of my subconscious mind, influenced
by my about two minutes' study of semantics sometime
last year).

Please forgive me my use of false terminology; now
that I have access to an enormous library with a very
good linguistics section, I may begin my conlanging in
earnest (and with accurate terminology, no less).

> I don't know how long you've already been
> subscribing to this list, Steven Williams,
Two days. Does it show :)? Okay, I belonged to this
list ages ago (~2 years) for a few months, and had to
leave due to life circumstances. It's good to be back.

> so if you'd like to know the rest of what John
Quijada wrote, ask him or me to send you the whole
message offlist.

Very well. I shall. Thank you.

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