tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jun 08 00:33:28 1997

Back to archive top level

To this year's listing



[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]

Transitivity



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


Back to archive top level