Re: My new conlang

En réponse à Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...>:

> > >
> > > Are there any natlangs that have no transitive verbs?
> >
> >Tagalog! With its trigger system, it can very easily be argued that it
> has
> >no
> >transitive verbs, or rather, that the category of transitivity vs.
> >intransivity
> >doesn't apply to them.
> >
>
> Well, I'm talking about NO verbs which can allow two arguments.  No DO
> no IO
> no predicate compliments -- nothing.
>
Me too! In Tagalog the only core argument in verbs is the trigger. All the
other ones have oblique marking using prepositions, and are optional. So no
verb in Tagalog needs two core arguments. That's enough to say that they are
all intransitive isn't it?

Christophe.

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