Re: Trigger systems

daniel.andreasson@telia.com writes:
>Oh, I did read it. And it was excellently clear! :) In fact that was like
>the 3rd time as well. It seems that the example (about the woman and the
>rice) is *the* example to use when one wants to explain trigger systems.
>I've seen the same example in: _Understanding Syntax_ by Tallerman,
>_Beyond Subject and Object_ by Kibrik and then the book you mentioned
>_The Major Languages of East and South East Asia_ edited by Comrie.
Good, sometimes its a little difficult for me to wade through some of the
more deep linguistic explanations, and explain those in plain English.
>
>
>And Dixon (in _Ergativity_) doesn't
>give any example at all(!) He just explains it with his own words. How
>about that! :)
Wow, I think that without examples, it's not going to be clear enough,
unless Dixon is damn good at explaining trigger systems. Hmm, that reminds
me, I should put up a set of examples to explain each of the triggers
Saalangal uses.



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