Re: Genitives and Possessive Adjectives
From: | takatunu <takatunu@...> |
Date: | Thursday, February 26, 2004, 6:35 |
Chris Bates <christopher.bates@...>: wrote:
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> Do you think it would be workable to have a language which derived
> possessive adjectives instead of having a genitive?
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Chinese, Wolof and Sumerian look quite workable--if you mean languages
making an adjective and a genitive the same way, that is: The same tag is
stuck to a sub- noun, verb or clause to append it to a main noun.
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