[87184] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: The topic marker -'e'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Doty)
Wed Nov 25 20:44:22 2009
In-Reply-To: <4B0DDA1E.6010708@trimboli.name>
From: Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:42:42 -0800
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 17:30, David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name> wrote:
> It's interesting stuff, but I for one will have to take your word for
> it, for it goes beyond my knowledge at this time. But I certainly don't
> begrudge any conversation about it!
That's fine, I just didn't want it to be out there lingering. This is
one of the biggest annoyances in the field of linguistics: you ALWAYS
have to define EVERY term you use ALL THE TIME. It becomes maddening,
but otherwise, you get just this sort of thing: "Well, we you say
'passive', do you mean a certain construction, or a certain semantic
function, or the interaction of those two things in a specific
language, or something else???"
*sigh*
