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Re: Antigenetive case?

From:Christopher Wright <faceloran@...>
Date:Friday, August 9, 2002, 14:02
Joe sekalge:
>Has anyone thought of a case which marks a genetive, but marks it on the >posessed, not the posessor?
From what I have heard, Arabic does this, at least with place names, and Tolkien's Sindarin has a similar system. It is quite plausible. English might develop such a system soon (well, not quite soon; perhaps 1000 years). Ah, language has skewed my view of time. But if it's beyond my lifetime, what matter if it's a day or a hundred years? The days go slowly, but the centuries are swift. ____ "Through not observing the thoughts of another a man is seldom unhappy, but he who does not observe the movements of his own mind must of necessity be unhappy." --Marcus Aurelius