Re: Further language development Q's

From:    Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
> > 2)   Ayeri is a trigger language, that means fluid-S AFAIK.
>
> I don't think trigger languages are really the same thing as fluid-S. I
> think they're separate categories. But I don't know.
I would have to second this.  Fluid-S languages have gradient
marking depending on how volitional, animate, etc., the argument
is.  Thus, an intransitive like "fall" would normally take O-marking
since you don't normally choose to fall, but if you did, you could
use A-marking.  My understanding is that prototypical trigger languages
have no such split-behavior among intransitive predicates.

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