En réponse à Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...>:
>
> Hear, hear! Somali is indeed no.1 in my list, too.
>
> Anybody can explain me what anteriorization is?
>
> Plus tones. Plus semitoid morphology. With I forget how many articles,
> partly conveying tense (in nouns!) And on the top of all that, the
> most
> alien syntax I've ever dealt with.
>
I wish I knew more about Somali. Is there any link to some grammar of this
language somewhere on the net?
> No.2 in my list is Tagalog. Mainly 'cause I don't know if it's still
> nominative-accusative, and I don't understand how its four passives
> interact with word order, and no grammar I've seen cared to describe
> the exact rules for secondary stress/vowel length/vowel deletion...
>
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that Tagalog was a trigger language, and
thus that terms like nominative-accusative or ergative-absolutive didn't apply
to it. Or am I mixing it with another language?
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr