Re: Newbie says hi

H. S. Teoh writes:
 > On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 06:16:51AM +0000, Mat McVeagh wrote:
 > > >From: Amanda Babcock <langs@...>
 > > > I started a totally noun-based trigger language
 > > >last year;
 > >
 > > OK what is a trigger language? H.S. Teoh also mentioned that phrase.
 > [snip]
 >
 > Here's an introduction to trigger languages, courtesy of Pablo Flores,
 > one of our list members:
 >
 > http://www.angelfire.com/ego/pdf/ng/lng/how/how_wordclasses.html
 >
 > (Scroll down to the bottom of the page, the last section talks about
 > trigger languages.)
 >
 >

Further information, for those who find the subject particularly
interesting:

A couple of papers on the typology of these languages, one in answer
to the other.
http://www.sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au/LFG98/austro/foley/fintro.htm
http://www.sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au/LFG98/austro/kroeger/kintro.htm


A rather nice online course in Tagalog (I don't know how good it is
for learning the language, but it's certainly an improvement over most
online resources for "interesting" languages, and has quite a lot of
grammatical information).

http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/Grammar Activities/Grammar Default Files/DefaultTagalogGrammar.htm

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