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Re: Grammar Highlight Each Day ["descriptive verbs"]

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Grammar Highlight Each Day ["descriptive verbs"]
• Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:09:04 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

peHruS wrote:
 
: Today we look at "descriptive verbs." In The Klingon Dictionary (TKD) all 
: these verbs are listed on the English side beginning with "be....."

You might want to mention that, in TKD and elsewhere, Okrand calls these verbs
"qualities."  Here on the list, some people call them "stative verbs," though
this term means something a bit different in linguistics IIRC.



-- 
Voragh                       
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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