“…(See also Johns (1992) for a similar proposal for Inuktitut, to derive its ergatitivity from a kind of nominalist hypothesis.) None of the responses to Kaufman's proposal criticize it as being incompatible with the generative paradigm; rather, they find the data in favor of his view to be incomplete (Baker 2009), or they bring forward other data pointing toward a different conclusion, either for Tagalog itself (Richards 2009, Sabbaugh 2009 or for other comparable languages (Coon 2009, Koch andMatthewson 2009). Similarly, Chung (2012) shows explicitly how Topping's (1973) proposal of a novel, language-particular two-way category distinction for Chamorro (distinguishing in essence transitive verbs from a second category that includes analogs of English's intransitive verbs, adjectives, and nouns) could perfectly well be implemented within her formal generative assumptions.…”