Re: Triggeriness ...

Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> writes:
>How does that differ from what cases do?
I can hit a ball, and you can hit a ball, but that does not mean we are
the same person.

If you want to be liberal, we can say all languages have case. However i'm
speaking of explicit case, not implied.

As far as I know, case applies to nouns, pronouns, and adjectives, right?
If so, then none of the nouns have any cases on them. The triggers are
describing what the verb is *focusing* on, much like emphasizing words by
intonation.


Let me ask this, if case languages require the nouns to take case affixes
to make the relationships with *each other* understood, then why aren't we
seeing tagalog nouns taking obligatory case markers? I see them taking
either the trigger marker, or not (and sometimes neither).

I see it like this, the verb has affixes that are telling you what the
speaker is *emphasizing*, NOT telling you how the words are working in
relation to *each other* (and this is how i understand "case" to mean)

This is why i don't see them as cases.

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