tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jun 08 00:33:28 1997
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Transitivity
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Transitivity
- Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 03:32:57 -0400 (EDT)
Earlier I presented a post proclaiming that I feel that tlhIngan Hol verbs
are not necessarily inherently transitive/intransitive. Rather, these verbs
either take an object or do not take an object.
*Object* laj wotmey 'op 'e' nIDchugh yajbe' Hoch DaH vIja'nIS
SKI: Some Klingon verbs would make no sense taking an object.
Still, I agree with HoD Qanqor's early feelings that Klingon grammarians do
not classify verbs as transitive or intransitive, only that they have
different verb pronomial prefixes for when they take an object than when they
do not take an object.
peHruS