Re: Of of
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 1, 2006, 11:41 |
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On 4/1/06, Carsten Becker <carbeck@...> wrote:
> (1) The King's horse
> (2) The King's knight's horse
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> German, French
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> (1) horse GEN king
> (2) horse GEN knight GEN king
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> where "GEN" is an article to the noun following it.
What would that be in the so-called "Saxon genitive"?
(1) is obviously "DAT king POSS horse" (DAT = dative article; POSS =
possessive particle), but what about (2)? "DAT king POSS knight POSS
horse", perhaps (for example, "Dem König sein Ritter sein Pferd")? Or
maybe "ART.dat king PRON.poss knight PRON.dat PRON.poss horse" ("Dem
König sein Ritter ihm sein Pferd")?
BTW, Modern Greek would use the same pattern as standard German and
French, but I'm not sure about Ancient Greek -- I think it liked to
use "GEN king horse" for two-element compounds, and don't know what it
would've done with the three-element compound -- possibly "GEN knight
GEN king horse" (a kind of mixture of prefix and infix style:
"GEN.prefix (knight GEN.infix king) horse").
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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