Re: Tagalog - response to takatunu (was Re: Help: Ergative VOS

Suraq nda takatunu:

> Palmer is not God, SIL
> is not the World Academy, verbal voices are not the only basis for
> languages.
Yay! LOL :))))))))))))))))))

> The role in trigger languages is not "marked on the verb" because their
> predicate is not a verb. "Nagtuturo" is not a verb. No more than its Hebrew
> counterpart "melamed" is. No more than the English noun "the teacher" is.
> All of them are what is called in French a "substantif" because they
> "substantiate" (impersonate) the predicate of the clause. That is what a
> trigger system is all about
That's why I sorta like the term "possessive typology" I met in some books
written by ex-USSR linguists, as contrasted to "accusative", "ergative" and
"active" ones. I mentioned it in one of my earlier msgs, but it may be lost in
snwstorm chats :)

-- Yitzik