On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 at 15:53, Lieven L. Litaer <levinius@gmx.de> wrote:

Am 11.01.2019 um 15:30 schrieb Steven Boozer:
> Other examples:
>
> *SeymoH QeH*
> Anger excites. TKW

This one also quickly came to my mind, but in both cases, the zero
prefix includes an object: "excite" is transitive (at least in english)
so anger does indeed scite something or somebody.

It may be transitive, but that doesn't mean it can't be used without an object. The verb "eat" is transitive, but you can certainly say "he eats" without saying what he eats. I think there's no object here: anger excites generally, not anyone in particular.

Right. And Klingon grammar marks general or indefinite objects explicitly with no-object prefixes on verbs, so given that we know by the translation that there is no elided object, this sentence satisfies Jeremy's request. It is a verb with -moH that has a no-object prefix (null, and we know it's a no-object null and not a third-person-object null).

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