Trigger language? (CORRECTION)

In a message dated 1/21/03 1:24:51 AM, Fuscian@AOL.COM writes:

>I didn't state my hierarchy so well. The last part shouldn't be "where
>syntactic positions determine case," of course, because many nom-acc, erg,
>and tri langs have somewhat free word order. It's really more like "where
>case is dependent on status as a subject or object," i.e., correlated in
>some
>way with the structure of the sentence. Actually you could have two main
>groupings, like this:
>
>Structure-based:
>   Nom-Acc (English)
>   Ergative (Basque [fully or partially?])
>   Tripartite (Yimas [a Papuan lang], partially)
>   A, S & O alike (?Tagalog, when trigger is on an NP other than these)
>   A & S alike, O different (Rushan [a wacko Iranian lang], partially)
I meant of course, A & O alike, S differently.


Josh