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| == Focus and Topic in Languages == | |||
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| All Languages have a way of stressing which part of a clause the speaker is focusing on, which parts they wish to stress. Some examples from English: | |||
| I sent him a letter (I, the actor, is the topic) <BR> | |||
| A letter was sent to him by me (The letter, the patient, is the topic) <BR> | |||
| He was sent a letter by me (He, the recipient, is the topic) <BR> | |||
| All these sentences mean the same thing; what is different is which constituent is being stressed. | |||
| == Trigger Systems == | |||
| A trigger system is a way of marking which part of a clause the speaker wants to stress, which part they want to be the topic. In a trigger system, the topic is marked as the trigger, and then what ] the topic plays in the action is marked on the verb. This is different from a ]. Some examples from ], probably the best known trigger language: | |||
| Bumasa ng aklat ang tao.<BR> | |||
| Read.ACTOR.FOCUS.PRES NONTRIG book TRIG person.<BR> | |||
| The person reads a book.<BR> | |||
| Binasa ng tao ang aklat.<BR> | |||
| Read.PATIENT.FOCUS.PAST NONTRIG person TRIG book.<BR> | |||
| A book was read by a person.<BR> | |||
| Notice that in both of these sentences, the topic (the person in the first sentence, the book in the second sentence) is preceding by a trigger marker (ang). The other arguments to the verb, which are not the topic, are preceded by a different marker (ng, pronounced nang). The verbs bumasa and binasa both come from basa, to read, but they are marked to show both their ]/] and what role the trigger plays in the action. | |||
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