Re: Of of
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 2, 2006, 17:20 |
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Actually, I think that's cool! Sally
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Bleackley" <Peter.Bleackley@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 4:27 AM
Subject: Of of
> Consider a language where the genitive construction is of the form
> PARTICLE POSSESSOR POSSESSED
>
> so, for example, "The King's horse" would be (using English glosses)
>
> of King horse.
>
> Now, suppose we want to say "The King's knight's horse". The logical
> extension of the paradigm is
>
> of of King knight horse.
>
> This seems somewhat inelegant. What do natlangs (or conlangs for that
> matter) with similar syntax do?
>
> Pete
>
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