Quoting Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>:
> Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> writes:
> >Then, Tagalog
> >is not an accusative nor and ergative language,
> >because it has only one core case (the 'subject'
> >or 'trigger' or however you like to name it) and
> >this case has none of the roles assigned to it by
> >default, being its semantics entirely determined
> >by and dependent on verbal voice. Is there a name
> >for this structure? Well, I think that's what
> >the label "trigger language" refers to.
>
> I think it is a mistake to try to correlate trigger languages with those
> with "case". I see no evidence there is case (in the traditional sense).
Let me get this straight; every Tagalog requires a verb bearing the "trigger"
marker; just WHAT would that be if not a case marker?
Andreas