Am 27.02.2017 um 12:10 schrieb De'vID:
{-ta'} indicates intention behind the action, but it doesn't necessarily indicate intention on the part of the subject of the verb. {pumta' nagh} is fine, if someone pushed the stone intentionally.
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It's often overlooked that each section in TKD 4.2.X describes just who or what is affected by each type of suffix. For example, type 2 describes "how much choice the subject has", while type 6 show "how sure the speaker is". Type 7 explicitly says the suffix is about "the action" of the verb.
It further says that the {-ta'} suffix "is used when an activity was deliberately undertaken, the implication being that someone set out to do something and in fact did it."
{So'wI' chu'lu'ta'} is in TKD, and has an indefinite subject.
Yes, true, but still the indefinite /subject/ did this intentionally. All the (few) canon examples I can find in TKD, TKW and Monopoly have the subject intenting/deciding to do something. I have read all of chapter 4.2.7 carefully, and I think you can pin it down to two sorts of suffixes with two subclasses: 1) completed a) general / b) intentional (i.e. "deliberatly undertaken") 2) continous a) general / b) intentional (i.e. "known goal") I certainly do know that we can never be 100% sure without help from Maltz or canon examples, but in this case, as long as we don't have better examples, I keep feeling that {Heghta'} only makes sense in the Heghbat Ritual. -- Lieven L. Litaer aka Quvar valer 'utlh Grammarian of the KLI http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher http://www.klingonwiki.net