Re: Short Question: Actant

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:26:32 +0200, taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-
conlang@...> wrote:
>
> * Jeffrey Jones said on 2005-08-30 20:04:42 +0200
> > Does anybody know the precise definition of "actant"?
>
> Could you give the imprecise definition since "actant" is unfamiliar to
> me. Same as subject?
I'm afraid not; I heard someone use it someplace. Maybe *I* should have
asked for the imprecise definition first.

> > Also, while I'm in question mode, what's the proper linguistic term for,
> > not the person/number affixes themselves, but the kind of thing they
> > represent, collectively.
>
> Agreement, I think
I think I can refine my 2nd question: what I'm looking for is something
that specifically includes personal affixes, impersonal affixes, and
construct state -- again, not the actual inflections, but the concepts. I
believe these may be a subset of "agreement".

Thanks,

Jeff

>HTH,
>
>t.
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