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Re: {'Iv}

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: {'Iv}
• Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:59:47 EDT

In a message dated 2004-08-27 1:45:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> Can Klingon have verbless
> >sentences?  My limited experience tells me "no".
> 
> And my experience tells me "yes":  the so-called "pronoun-as-verb" 
> sentence.  My point was that it's a matter of terminology. Note that 
> "pronoun-as-verb" is our term, not Okrand's.  Cf. TKD (p.69f.):
> 
>    There is no verb corresponding to English "to be" in Klingon. On the
>    other hand, all pronouns (section 5.1) can be used as verbs, in the
>    sense of "I am", "you are", etc. ...
> 
> N.B. "can be used as verbs, in the sense of 'I am', 'you are', etc." NOT 
> "are verbs..."  

1) It's p. 67f, not p. 69f, but aside from that detail,
2) It says "all pronouns can be used as verbs".  This can't be literally true 
because {'e'} and {net} are "always treated as the object of the verb", but 
aside from that, if {'Iv} and {nuq} are pronouns then they can also be used as 
verbs.  

lay'tel SIvten

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