Re: Triggeriness ...
| From: | Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 16, 2003, 8:31 |
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Surak nda takatunu:
> According to my own linguistics classes (in France in the 80's), this is
> called "attributive voice" system
I met several times a term "possessive typology" in Russian linguistic papers
while talking about Tagalog et Co., contrasted to "nominative t.", "ergative t."
and "active t." I found the term "trigger" for the first time only in this List,
and later at seasite.niu.edu pages. IMHO, "trigger" explains everything in much
more convenient way than an old (1963) booklet from "Languages of Asia and
Africa (Jazyki Azii i Afriki)" series that uses ugly terms like "instrumental
passive voice" et al.
-- Yitzik