Re: Trigger language?

En réponse à Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>:

>
> That makes sense :). I was thinking that it probably should be the
> agent
> who gets the focus rather than the patient.
>
Indeed...

> Itakian is full of complexities it seems. Actually most of your
> conlangs
> seem that way, Christophe :).
>
Hehe, you ain't seen nothin' ;)) . When I said that the factitive function
couldn't become trigger, that was true, but that didn't mean that it couldn't
be focused on. But to do that, you need to put the factitive construction (with
preposition) as subject of a nominal sentence, and construct the rest of the
sentence accordingly (a nightmare for non-Itakians ;)) ). And actually, I know
how it works with most functions, but I don't know yet how it is achieved with
the factitive (because somehow the factitive must be considered equal to the
rest of the sentence to allow for such a construction!).

Christophe.

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