Re: Trigger language?

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 07:34:32AM +0000, Joe wrote:
[snip]
> > 2) The Ebisedian verb really does behave like the head of the sentence: it
> >   *is* the subject about which the sentence speaks. The nouns are just the
> >   pawns, the footmen, the parameters, of this subject. It's almost as if
> >   you are describing everything from a detached, 3rd-person point of view:
> >   a sighting happened; a speaking happened, a meeting happened. The
> >   participants (nouns) in the event are, in a sense, auxilliary. The main
> >   point is that a speaking happened; and by the way, the speaker is acting
> >   as the originator of this speaking, the words are what is conveyed by
> >   this speaking, and the listener is acting as the recipient in this
> >   speaking.
> >
> >    This, in a nutshell, is how a Bisedi thinks.
> >
[snip]
> Did you see my point that the Verb is a subjective nominal inflected as
> a verb unless the conveyant is present?
[snip]

Oh, is that what you meant? :-) I saw your message, but the terminology
was a bit opaque to me. :-/ But I'd say, even if the conveyant was
present, the verb is still the subject.


T

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