On 8/4/2017 10:42 AM, Philip Newton wrote:
Is anything known about whether {nay} and {Saw} are transitive and/or intransitive, or how they are used?
Specifically, are they "marry" in the sense of "get married" (intransitive) or "get married to [person]" (transitive)?
Givenhttp://www.qephom.de/e/message_from_maltz_170713.html and its endorsement of the grammaticality of {naychuq} and {Sawchuq} and its example of {B tlhogh A}, I assume that {nay} and {Saw} work similarly and that one can say {qeylIS nay luqara'} and {luqara' Saw qeylIS}.
Any Klingon verb that can take an object may leave that object off to mean either the action is done in general or to an unspecified object. So *nay luqara'* means /Lukara marries (in general, or someone unspecified)./ I didn't doubt before that those words took objects; allowing *-chuq* on them cliches it for me. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name