Re: Ethnologue

En réponse à James Landau <Neurotico@...>:

>
>  Uhh . . . how about THESE genitives?
>
>  mia . . . genitive of mi
>  via . . . genitive of vi
>  lia . . . genitive of li
>  sxia . . . genitive of sxi
>  gxia . . . genitive of gxi
>  nia . . . genitive of ni
>  ilia . . . genitive of ili
>  sia . . . genitive of si
>  cia . . . genitive of ci
>
Well, as you have probably seen by now, I already replied to this one.
Basically, genitives that agree in number and case with the noun they complete
are not genitives, they are adjectives. And in the case of the adjectives you
are referring to, their possessive meaning is just incidental and due to the
meaning of the *roots*, not of the affix. Thus they cannot be treated as
genitives.

Christophe.

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