7 May
2018
7 May
'18
1:19 p.m.
Various sources I've read (e.g., the Wikipedia entry on Klingon) say that Klingon has two moods: indicative and imperative. Maybe this is right. But what determines whether something is a mood? Does Klingon have an interrogative mood (*bItlhutlhtaH'a'*/Are you drinking?/)? What about an optative mood (*bIQuchjaj*/May you be happy/)? We know that we can create an irrealis with *net jalchugh; *is this a subjunctive mood? Or does a mood require an inflected verb? Do the qualification suffixes create a mood? Basically, how does one determine what moods a language actually has, and can we apply this to Klingon? -- SuStel http://trimboli.name