Re: LW again -- Noun and verb

Quoting Markus Miekk-oja <torpet@...>:

Thomas Wier slabronten:
> >Is possession on nouns marked on the possessor or the possessum?
> >If the possessum, do the verbal endings have any relationship
> >to the possessive endings (in many languages they do).
>
> hey! Is "possessum" a real word in linguistic terminology?
> (only asked so I'll know if I can use it and expect everyone to understand
> it).
In linguistic terminology, yes.  That does not ensure that everyone
will immediately recognize it, however.  (I have a professor who's
very fond of the word "desideratum/a", but at first only those of us
in his class with a classical education understood what he was talking
about.)

[Markus, perhaps you should check your mail client.  Your email
was set to return to you, not the list.]

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