tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Nov 05 22:35:55 2005
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Re: chenmoH/mojmoH (was Re: Klingon WOTD: cho' (verb))
ja' lay'tel SIvten:
> In English (in fact, everything except Klingon), "be", "become",
> "seem",
> etc., don't take objects, but rather predicate nominatives, linked
> with the
> subject by the copula.
bo'Dagh'a' Dalo'law'. I think you're picking a particular
interpretation of grammar and declaring it "correct"; other
interpretations are possible. More to the point, what Klingon does
*is* the important thing here.
> "Transitive and "copular" are mutually exclusive. If it's one, it
> can't also
> be the other.
That's not how *I* learned it, and it's not supported by a quick web
search. It seems that in American usage, at least, "copular" is a
kind of transitivity. The page at http://www.csun.edu/~galasso/
completehandbook.htm even uses the phrase "Transitive Copular
sentences".
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