Re: Saalangal stuff

Barry Garcia wrote:
>
>Interesting! I wonder, does Indonesian use triggers at all? From what i've
>read i cant tell. I found one site that seemed to show that word order
>shows the emphasis.

No, nothing like PI languages.  Word order yes, and the  focus forms--
1.active/agent me(ng)-, 2.object/patient (so called passive) di- 3.
object/IO -kan (can combine with 1 and 2; also creates causatives-- I never
quite got the hang of it) 4. location -i.  Not all verbs show every
possibility.  But in a sense it preserves the same categories, but with
different morphology.

Old Javanese still had a lot of cognate Philippine type morphology-- infixes
um/in, ma-, pa- mapa- maka- -an, -@n, but I don't recall what the noun
markers were like-- plus the texts can be a little obscure; but the system
resembled PI languages more than most Indonesian languages do. (including
modern Jav., which seems to have been heavily malayized.)

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