Re: Trigger language?

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

>Much more interesting than Tagalog which is
>quite straightforward in that respect.
One thing Tagalog is not straightforward in regard to triggers is which
types of each trigger to use (for instance, the actor triggers are mag and
um, ithere's no pattern to which gets um and what gets mag, although my
teacher told me that it's usually things that require only one
person/thing to do the action that gets um. aaaaanyway).

In Saalangal, my triggers are much more straightforward and simple to use
than Tagalog. There's one form for each trigger only, it's all regular,
AND trigger affixes are not modified for aspect like the are in Tagalog. I
use simple tense suffixes. Of course, it leads to long words (four
syllables at least).

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