Trigger Systems (was: Rating languages)
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 29, 2001, 2:43 |
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>Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that Tagalog was a trigger
>language, and thus that terms like nominative-accusative or
>ergative-absolutive didn't apply to it. Or am I mixing it with another
>language?
What exactly is a trigger system? I know there was something about this in
the conlang faq, but personalweb.sierra.net (and indeed www.sierra.net)
seem to be down, so I can't check it.
Tristan
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