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Re: action verbs vs. qualities

Alan Anderson ([email protected])

• From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: action verbs vs. qualities
• Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 07:40:46 -0500
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ja' lay'tel SIvten:
>The subject of a verb of quality is a patient, the one experiencing the
>quality.

Why couldn't it be that the subject is the one *expressing* the quality?

It looks to me like you're taking an established linguistic concept and
applying it to Klingon without checking your assumptions.  There are
definitely patterns to be found, but I'm uncomfortable with the way you
seem to be forcing Klingon to match patterns found in other languages.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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