Re: Of of
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 2, 2006, 10:32 |
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On 4/1/06, Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...> wrote:
> Emaelivpeith Carsten Becker <carbeck@...>:
> > As For My Conlangs:
> >
> > (1) The King's horse
> > (2) The King's knight's horse
> >
> > Tarsyanian (in planning)
> >
> > (1) horse.CONSTR king
> > (2) horse.CONSTR knight.CONSTR king
>
> Does "CONSTR" ("construction"?) just mark the possessed, rather than
> the possessor?
I'd imagine CONSTR stands for the construct state, as it is called in
languages such as Arabic. (The syntax is, IIRC, as in the above --
possessed in construct state followed by possessor; the possessor is
either definite or indefinite, as the context requires, to distinguish
between horse.CONSTR king "the horse of a king" and horse.CONSTR the
king "the horse of the king".)
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>