Re: Trigger language?
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 22, 2003, 16:59 |
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On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:54:50PM -0500, Mike Ellis wrote:
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> One thing I'm curious about: what role does word order play in Ebisedian?
Mainly emphasis. Other than that, word order is mostly irrelevant.
> Must an origin appear before the verb, and a recipient after? Or not? Does
> the conveyed noun have any set position? Or is word order used to show
> which (if any) part of the sentence is emphasised?
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Conventionally, the word order is originative - instrumental - verb -
conveyant - locative - receptive. But this is a very, very weak trend; the
Ebisedi usually just string words together in the order it occurs to them.
Fronting a word usually means emphasis, though.
T
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