| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 2, 2001, 15:28 |
Christophe Grandsire wrote:>And as for a resource on a living trigger language, I advise you: >http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/ > >They have a rather good explanation of the trigger system (called 'verbal >focus' in their pages).The NIU site looks interesting and worth further investigation. Most Tagalists, and researchers in related Austronesian langs. that use the system, do refer to it as a "focus" system. Frankly, I don't know where the "trigger" term came from......