Re: Trigger language?

On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:32:52 -0500 "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>
writes:
> How would you describe such an odd system? :-)
that's sort of like the case system that i came up with for Old Kontoko,
but i haven't taken the time to even name the cases!  in Kontoko, the
original case system has changed quite a bit.  the case system in Kontoko
is sort of a jumbled mess of nominative-accusative, ergative-absolutive,
split-S, fluid-S, tripartite, whatever it's called when P and A are
marked the same and S is marked differently, and some other stuff.  that
makes it really hard to explain without explaining Old Kontoko and the
explaining all the changes from Old Kontoko to Kontoko.
BTW, what would you call a system like this (the cases are labelled a, b,
c, etc. because i'm not sure what to call them):

I(b) went store(c)
'I went to the store'

he(a) went I(b) store(c)
'he took me to the store'

I(a) gave he(b) book(c)
'I gave him the book'

what would you call that?

> T
Robert Wilson
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