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Re: Grammatical Summary of Kemata

From:Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...>
Date:Thursday, December 13, 2001, 18:03
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 15:25:18 +0100, Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:

>Interesting, a language which can mark both the "genitive" and the
"construct".
>I wonder if there are any example in real life...
Sure. And you know it: Classical Arabic. (St. constructus regularly differs from St. absolutus in having neither the definite article nor the tanwins; OTOH gen. is mostly distinguishable from nom. and acc., except sentence-finally). (and IIRC, Akkadian is another example) Basilius -

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