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Re: Antigenetive case?

From:julien eychenne <eychenne.j@...>
Date:Friday, August 9, 2002, 14:01
> En réponse à baelrogue <snoopa@...>: > I am a native Hebrew speaker, so I am naturally not supposed to know > this, but lesson one in Philology is that the alleged "contrust > case" in Hebrew is performed by simply placing the "owned" before > the "owner" and the "owner" is definite-articled. > There is no genitive case in Hebrew.
> Sûs = Horse, nominative paradigm. Mélekh = King, nominative paradigm. > > Sûs haMélekh = the King's horse OR horse of the king.
But is this really what Joe was meaning? Here the ownee isn't marked while the owner is : it's just another form of indicating possession on the owner (compair hebrew <sûs *ha*Mélekh> vs latin <equus reg*is*>), but it seems to me that Joe was looking for examples where the ownee is marked. And in this example <sûs> has no morphological marking. Julien PS : thanks to Christophe who redirected the post :)