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Re: Trigger Systems (was Re: Book on constructive linguistics)

From:Christopher Bates <chris.maths_student@...>
Date:Friday, October 6, 2006, 15:25
> If your report of Li and Thompson is correct, I cannot agree with it. > But as you say, one needs to read their book before commenting in more > detail.
The book is a collection of papers, Li and Thompson are the editors IIRC. There was one paper on Tagalog, and in particular whether triggers were subjects or not. That's the paper I was recalling, although it's been a year or two since I read it.