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LC-01 genitive noun¬† phrase        s

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Friday, October 31, 2003, 21:07
En réponse à David Peterson :


>Not at all, but this is, by now, a lexicalized form, I believe. I'd say >that *passer byers would be ungrammatical, in all dialects. (Q: Did the >need for this word come about because French has a single word for it, >"quidam"?)
Which happens to have been borrowed straight from Latin for "someone", so we actually felt the need to get it first :)) . The reason why I dunno though :) . Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.