Re: Trigger languages

Matahaniya ang R A Brown <ray@...>:

> If (a) is intended, read David's comments from "The
> notion of the 'trigger' language, then, is something
> exclusive to conlangs" onwards; also take a look at
> Carsten's Ayeri conlang.
> http://www.beckerscarsten.de/conlang/ayeri/
The thing that goes on in Ayeri has grown out of the same
misunderstanding as in the article in the Wikibook. I forgot
my handle there, so please delete that anyone who has
access, because it's kind of inaccurate AIUI now. Instead I
think it's better to refer to the Wikipedia article on
"Austronesian alignment", that is,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian_alignment. The
thing is, trigger stuff like in Tagalog is mixed with
definiteness, which wasn't clear to me back then. Also, as
far as Describing Morphosyntax goes, "trigger morphology" is
classified as an applicative *voice* -- not as a special
syntactic alignment as such! -- which, I think, suits the
whole thing better. I'm sorry for having provided misleading
information before, but actually it has been explained that
way on Conlang-L before (!).

Regards
Carsten

Also, the correct link to my Ayeri stuff is
http://benung.freehostia.com. Please change your bookmarks
accordingly if you had made one.

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Tenena, Nonamay 20, 2317 ya 04:35:39 pd
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 06:20:30 pm

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