Re: Of of

Philip Newton wrote:
> On 4/1/06, Carsten Becker <carbeck@...> wrote:
>
>>(1) The King's horse
>>(2) The King's knight's horse
[snip]

> 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
The genitive phrase is adjectival, so it was treated just like any other
adjective or phrasal adjective, i.e.
normal:  article + adjective + noun
emphasize adjective: article + noun + article (repeated) + adjective.

So "the king's horse" (assuming 'horse' is nominative):
    ho   tou     basileo:s hippos
the-NOM the-GEN king-GEN  horse-NOM
or
    ho   hippos    ho      tou     basileo:s
the-NOM horse+NOM the-NOM the-GEN king-GEN

So "the king's knight's horse" is:
    ho   tou      tou    basileo:s hippotou   hippos
the-NOM the-GEN the-GEN king-GEN  knight-GEN horse-NOM
or
    ho   tou     hippotou   tou     tou     basileo:s    hippos
the-NOM the-GEN knight-GEN the-GEN the-GEN king-GEN   horse-NOM
or
    ho   hippos    ho      tou      tou    basileo:s hippotou
the-NOM horse-NOM the-NOM the-GEN the-GEN king-GEN  knight-GEN
or
    ho   hippos    ho      tou     hippotou   tou     tou     basileo:s
the-NOM horse-NOM the-NOM the-GEN knight-GEN the-GEN the-GEN king-GEN
(I think that's all the permutations  :)

Welsh is much simpler  ;)

the king's horse - ceffyl y brennin (lit. horse the king)
the king's knight's horse - ceffyl marchog y brennin (horse knight the
king)

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