Re: Trigger language?

>How would you describe such an odd system? :-)
Might call it a "motion-based" system, or something like that. Even though,
as you said, the sense of this "motion" can be metaphorical -- particularly
in cases like "see" etc -- it revolves around the idea that any verb is
a "motion" in which something is "conveyed" somewhere. It's a little bit
like the use of local and translative cases in Omurax, although Omurax has
no verbs at all.
One thing I'm curious about: what role does word order play in Ebisedian?
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?

M

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