On 9/28/2017 1:26 PM, André Müller wrote:
I think ambitransitive isn't the right word here. Ambitransitive verbs can be intransitive or transitive, like {Soj vISop} vs. {jISop}. This one reminds me more of Chinese and Thai in which some verbs are their own causative verb. But I cannot remember the correct term for this type of verb...
- André
2017-09-28 19:21 GMT+02:00 kechpaja <kechpaja@comcast.net <mailto:kechpaja@comcast.net>>:
On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 05:06:45PM +0000, Steven Boozer wrote: > SEE ALSO: > pegh keep something secret, be secret, classified (v)
Wait, does this mean that {pegh} is ambitransitive? Klingon seems to have very few verbs of that type, so I figure it would be worth explicitly checking.
Whatever the verb is, we've got a few of them in Klingon. *tagh* *taghbej mu'qaDveS */Curse warfare has definitely begun. /(CK) *Qu' DataghDI' 'aqtu' mellota' je tIqaw*/ When you begin a mission, remember Aktuh and Melota. /(TKW) *mev* *not mev peghmey */Secrets never cease. /(PK) *bIjatlh 'e' yImev */Shut up!/ (PK) *meQ* *Ha'DIbaHmey meQ Sop 'e' tIv tera'nganpu' */Terrans enjoy eating burnt animals./ (CK, but notice the missing *lu-* on *tIv*) *to'waQ meQ vutwI' */The cook burns the tendon./ (KGT) And you've noticed *pegh.* There may be others I can't remember right now. There are also a lot of verbs whose transitivity we don't know, like *DIng* /spin /and *chagh*/drop./ And maybe, just maybe, Klingons aren't quite so rigorous with their transitivity as we are. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name