Re: Triggeriness ...

Javier BF scripsit:

> The structure of "trigger" languages is
> nothing but merely an extension of the very well
> known and familiar concept of verbal voice, so as
> to allow arguments other than just the object
> to be promotable to the position of subject, that
> is, to the position of the unmarked case with which
> the verb agrees and towards which it is "focalized"
> - or, as you put it, so as "to make a subject of"
> what are usually treated as non-core cases.
In fact, it isn't.  Voice systems almost always have a dominant
active voice and other voices are subordinate.  Trigger systems
do not predominantly use actor-trigger sentences: all the types
are essentially equal.

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