Re: Ethnologue
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 9, 2003, 23:17 |
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En réponse à Jean-François Colson <bn130627@...>:
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> Yes, it is.
Then as a footnote maybe. But not as second feature after saying that Esperanto
was SVO, and much before even saying that Esperanto had an accusative in -n,
maybe its most infamous feature!
I forgot "mia", "via", "lia", etc. which are genitives of
> "mi",
> "vi", "li", etc.
>
Not really. They are derivated adjectives. That they have a posssessive meaning
is just due to their origin (the personal pronouns), not to their identity. It
would be just like saying that "mon" is the genitive of "moi", which is plain
nonsense (if it was, it wouldn't agree in gender and number with the possessed
noun. Same with the Esperanto possessive adjectives: they agree in number and
case with the possessed noun, and thus cannot be analysed as genitives).
Christophe.
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