Re: Genitives and Possessive Adjectives

Christophe wrote:

<<(forgetting about the occasional almost pair like blond and blonde).>>

I'm still trying to figure out what you mean by this, but anyway...

<<Would this be a workable alternative to having a genitive or
> something similar? The problem I suppose is that you couldn't apply
> adjectives to such a phase, unlike a genitive noun in a language like
> latin which can have its own adjectives. So you probably couldn't say
> "the big car's wheels", unless you have an augmentive affix...>>
Add to that that you'd need to do something about, "the car of the man I
hoped you would've seen already".   This would come out to "the
the-man-I-hoped-you-would've-seen-already's car."

-David