[87664] in tlhIngan-Hol
Today is a good day to discuss grammar
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kff@sics.se)
Fri Jan 15 17:59:51 2010
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:56:04 +0100
From: kff@sics.se
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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Hi!
Recently, I was thinking about {Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam}. The English
translation uses infinitive (is it called that in English?) "to die"
wheras the Klingon has the indefinite subject marker {-lu'} instead.
Is that a standard way to translate the indefinite subject for
intransitive verbs?
All of the example verbs in TKD 4.2.5 are transitive which means that
the suggested translation (passive form) is less than useful since the
passive form has the object of the indefinite subject verb as subject,
but for an intransitive verb there is no such object.
So what's the word on intransitive verbs with indefinite subject?
{pab ja'chuqlu'meH QaQ jajvam}
/buSwI'
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