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Re: transitivity

Alan Anderson ([email protected])

• From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: transitivity
• Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 09:51:55 -0500
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
• References: <[email protected]>

ja' QeS 'utlh wrote:

> No, I don't think you are using wrong terminology. In normal  
> linguistics
> jargon, I believe "stative" refers to a verb that refers to a state  
> with no
> explicit duration and no explicit end point - like {Doq} "be red",  
> {Qong}
> "sleep", et cetera. Klingon linguistics has come to use "stative"  
> to refer
> to a particular category of such verbs which are always  
> intransitive, which
> can be used in the Q position of the construction {X Q law' Y Q  
> puS}, and
> which can be used adjectivally.

Many longtime Klingonists avoid the label "stative" because of its  
incomplete applicability.  The phrase "verb of quality" is used by  
many of us as a short form of TKD's "verb describing a state or  
quality".

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