tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 26 17:36:19 1997
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Re: defective verbs
ja' ~mark:
>Klingon, so far as we know, has only regular verbs (with the possible
>exception of the "copula" which is really pronouns used as verbs)...
<?nga'> mob tu'lu'be'. reH <nga'chuq> lo'lu'.
toH! wanI' Daj vItu'pu'! KGT-Daq <nga'chuq> leghlu'be'.
{nga'chuq} always appears as a unit. The apparent root verb {?nga'}
is never seen by itself. It always has the suffix {-chuq} on it, so
its subject must always be plural and it may not have an object.
I just noticed that {nga'chuq} isn't listed in KGT...
-- ghunchu'wI'