Re: Phenomena

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>- Do as Tagalog does (since it's kind of a model for
>  trigger languages, and Saalángal in particular, I
>  guess). What does it do?

Well the partial reason it sparked my question on it, was my Tagalog book
tells how "penomenal" sentences are constructed. The book says:

Sentences whose predicates consist of verbs stating certain acts of
nature, when inflected as -um- verbs, don't show a subject phrase.

ulan - rain
umulan - it rained
umulan nang malakas - it rained hard
umulan sa bundok - it is raining in the mountains.

Since i'm not at allfluent in Tagalog i cant give you the rest of the
examples (they go into the -in- verbs,), so perhaps Kristian can help me
out here.


Anyway, since Saalangal is meant to be based off of an austronesian style
system, and not a daughter or sister language to any existing ones,, I
have added in things where I wanted (like the -re- infix for phenomenal
sentences) .
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