Re: Antigenetive case?

 --- Christophe Grandsire
> It's a common feature in Semitic languages
> like Arabic and Hebbrew. I
> can't give you examples since I don't know any
> Hebbrew and my Arabic is
> extremely rusty, but I'm sure other people on the
> list will be happy to do
> so ;)) .
can't remember any hebrew examples, but know that the
construct is the shortest form available of the root,
keeping all the consonants but eroding the vowels (
with a tendency towards the schwa and the vowel i ).

it's as if for 'my mother' i said 'mithr me' and 'my
house' i said 'hus me', whilst keeping the
non-construct forms the same.

bn

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