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Re: Rating Languages

From:Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...>
Date:Friday, September 28, 2001, 18:57
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

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