Re: Grammatical Summary of Kemata
| From: | Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 13, 2001, 18:03 |
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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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