Re: Antigenetive case?

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# I believe Hungarian does this - but I could be wrong!
# Mike
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Yep. But not in the true "antigenitive" sense that is described here.
It is just the 3rd person form of the posessive suffix...

orvos = doctor
beteg = patient
betege = his patient

orvos betege = doctor's patient
orvos beteg != doctor's patient (i think this would be read as "doctor
and patient" in a sentence, but i'm not sure)

the non-possessed noun can optionally have the dative (which is sometimes
actually called "genitive")

orvosnak betege


I would think a true antigenitive as described previously in the thread
would not trigger a case change in other elements of the phrase,
so instead of, for example:

cat-of him, it could be
cat-of he..

-tim
http://www.zece.com/conlang/


# > In a demo language (not existing)
# > ie.
# >  kathai elom
# >  cat.AGN(f) 3s.ACC(m)
# >  cat-of him
# >   his cat
# >
# > AGN = anti genitive
# > 3s = Third person singualr
# > ACC =   Accusative.
# >

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