Re: Triggeriness ...

Barry Garcia wrote at 2003-12-12 15:17:32 (-0800)
 > Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> writes:
 > >I don't say they must be; it's just that to me, insisting they're
 > >something else seems to be needlessly complicating things.
 >
 > I think equating them to cases only confuses newbies. Had my
 > Tagalog instructor, or the books i have insisted Tagalog triggers
 > were like accusative/ergative/nominative cases, i'd have gotten
 > very confused.
 >
 > I say describe them on their own terms, that triggers *simply*
 > emphasize the role of a noun or pronoun in the sentence, be it that
 > it's the actor, the object, the location, who it's done for, where
 > it's done.
 >

How does that differ from what cases do?