On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 11:00:22 +0200, Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:
>I wish I knew more about Somali. Is there any link to some grammar of this
>language somewhere on the net?
I searched the net for it a while ago, and I only found a small
amateurish Somali-English glossary designed for Somali speakers.
>> 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.
Probably you're right; perhaps the above tells more about the grammars I
used than about the language itself. But at any rate, the system did seem
very complex and difficult to describe.
Basilius