On Feb 26, 2019, at 08:20, Daniel Dadap <daniel@dadap.net> wrote: {qama'pu' jonta' neH} gave us not only Clipped Klingon, {-pu'} as a plural marker for beings capable of speech, {-ta'} as an aspect marker for completed intentional actions, {neH} as a verb, and the special rule that {neH} doesn’t use the pronoun {'e'} when taking a sentence as its object, but *also* the rule forbidding aspect markers on a verb that takes a sentence as its objectI forgot to include “the meaning of the verb {ma'}” to this already very long list. I imagine that {ma'} was originally meant to mean something like {ja'} does now, and wonder whether we wouldn’t have the similarity between {jatlh}, {ja'}, {jat}, and {jach} if he weren’t forced to change {ma'} to mean something else, to make the backfit less obvious.
-pu' was originally a past-tense marker, and ma'
meant what ja' means now. ma' means accommodate
because Okrand had to accommodate the script-change with all this
new stuff. Klingon switched to aspect instead of tense because it
made no sense to have past tense on the new verb jon, no
matter what the suffix.
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