Re: [NATLANG] Mongolian

"#1" wrote:
>
> I don't know much about mongolian grammar but i know that the possession
> is odd
>
> In english you have:  "my father's car"
> In frensh it's:  "la voiture de mon père"
> In mongolian it would be ordered  like: "me, my father, his car"
>
Looks like Mongolian may distinguish alienable/inalien. possession--- That's
quite similar to the construction in some of the Indonesian languages I'm
interested in (Lesser Sundas: Leti/Kisar etc.):

Kisar (has both alienable and inalienable possession):

Inalienable: Pronoun NOUN+Pron.suffix:
ya?u amu 'my father'; ai aman 'his father'
 I  ama+u            he ama-n

Alienable: pronoun POSS.PART+suffix NOUN
ya?u ninu roma --- ai nin(a) roma my.../his house
 I  nin+u house    he nin-n(a)

(Not entirely sure I've got the suffixes completely right, but very
close.......)

Both at once: ai aman nin kuda 'his father's horse'
             he father+n PART-n horse(lit. he, his father, his horse)

'my father's horse' presumably: ya?u amu nin kuda (me, my father, his horse)