[87085] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: The topic marker -'e'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Tue Nov 24 21:24:53 2009
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:22:46 -0500
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <687D2D25-7196-476B-8C8A-2296128C13AB@alcaco.net>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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ghunchu'wI' wrote:
> On Nov 24, 2009, at 8:32 PM, Christopher Doty wrote:
>
>> The original discussion was, I think, about
>> S's and A's, and these ARE different: intransitive verbs take S
>> prefixes, and transitive verbs take A/O prefixes, so the distinction
>> between S and A is important.
>
> That looks like a tautology, and it looks incomplete at best. It
> doesn't say anything about the actual subjects. Is there really a
> distinction between the kinds of subject in the two sentences {jISop}
> and {vISop}? {jISop} bears the same prefix as {jIbIr}; do they have
> the same sorts of subjects?
Yes, there's a problem there, because "intransitive" verbs in Klingon
may indicate general objects instead of no object. I don't really
understand the S and A and O stuff though...
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