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Re: Saalangal stuff

From:Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg.rhiemeier@...>
Date:Friday, December 7, 2001, 23:16
Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> wrote:

> Since Kristian clarified trigger systems for me more, i now understand > better how they work in Saalangal :). (Thanks again, Kristian).
It seems that trigger systems are a sort of "cross-conworld areal feature" of the western Pacific as ISTR that Saalangal is spoken on a (fictional) group of islands that lie somewhere near the Philippines and where Kristian's Boreanesia would be.
> In this email, i'm going to touch on the system a bit, and explain the > difference in uses between the agent and patient triggers (I've been > talking about this with Christophe offlist). > > In Saalangal, it is considered impolite to focus on the actions of > another. Hence, when talking about what someone else did, the patient > trigger is used. However, if the other person is a subordinate, or just > someone you dont care much about :), the agent trigger is used when > talking about what they've done.
And I guess that they use the agent trigger a lot in courts of law when referring to the actions of the defendant. Jörg. .

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