Re: Of of

From: "Arthaey Angosii" <arthaey@...>
Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 10:05 PM

> Does "CONSTR" ("construction"?) just mark the possessed,
> rather than the possessor?
Construct state. It's the 'reverse genitive' so to say. The
possessee is marked instead of the possessor.

>> Ukele (in planning)
>>
>>   (1) horse king GEN
>>   (2) horse knight king GEN GEN (maybe?!)
>>
>>   where "GEN" is an article to the previous noun
>
> This seems as though it would quickly become very
> difficult to follow, if there were an arbitrary number of
> possessors. Would ambiguity arise if it were "horse knight
> king GEN.MULITPLE" or such?
Ukele is still in its 'children's shoes' as you'd say here
... I planned to work more on the language during the Easter
holidays when I'm not learning for my oral exams in June and
when I do not work at overhauling our congregation's web
site -- it's long overdue. So, what I wanted to say is that
I cannot tell you much about Ukele because it isn't very
much developed yet. Your point will be considered, though.
Maybe the way Arabic has it is the way to go, or how Welsh
does it ... who knows.

BTW, I don't think there would be much ambiguity arising
here when marking this for GEN.MULTIPLE because case markers
always come at the end of a NP. So you'd know that there's
a "chain possession" for the previous NP and that it's over
now.

Carsten