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Re: THEORY: Use of Ligatures and the Trigger System in Tagalog

From:Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 22, 2004, 20:52
Chris Bates/Christophe Grandsire wrote:



>What do you mean by Ligatures? I remember the many discussions about >the >trigger system, but I can't remember talking about ligatures in that >context. Can you explain a little what they are? (if only to cure >what may >be temporary amnesia...)
Well, if he's referring to Tagalog, he must mean things like bahay na maganda house linker beautiful = beautiful house ~ magandang bahay beautiful-linker house = beautiful house and other usages. I have a paper on the subject by Tagalog speaker/teacher/PhD linguist, Paz Naylor; it's in a tightly bound book and might not xerox successfully but I could try. Or with access to a rilly good Library-- Naylor, Paz B. "Relation-Marking and Tagalog Syntax" (pp. 33-50) in "Austronesian Studies: papers from the 2nd Eastern Conf. on Austronesian languages", Paz Naylor, ed. Michigan Papers on S&SE Asia, Center for S&SE Asian Studies, U.Michigan, No. 15, 1979 But the various Tag. grammars would probably go into the subject as well. If no Tagalog, try Bisayan grammars. Old Javanese also used a linking /N/ though I don't recall the details, something like "iki" 'this' > iking +Noun 'this Noun'. If OTOH he is interested in a conlang approach, that's another matter.....

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