Re: Genitive apposition

Quoting Racsko Tamas <tracsko@...>:

> On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 <"Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>> wrote:
>
> > How widespread is this feature?  English has it (e.g. "the land of
> Shin'ar",
> > another excerpt from the handy-dandy Babel text).  Does Cl. Latin use the
> > genitive this way (the Vulgate version of the verse in the Babel text
> > doesn't)?  The Romance languages?  Other Germanic languages?  Other I-E?
> > Non I-E?
>
>   Hungarian has it but it's limited mainly to biblical and poetic context.
> In Slovak it's not used.
Swedish does it occasionally, perhaps most commonly in the fixed expression
_hela Sveriges land_ "whole Sweden's land"="the whole of Sweden". Also in
biblical contexts - _Egyptens land_, _Kanaans land_. Feels formal/archaic to
me.

The piece from the Babel text is in the new official translation:

När människorna flyttade österut fann de en dal i Shinar där de bosatte sig.

lit: When the-humans moved eastwards found they a valley in Shinar where they
settled themselves.

Thus, no 'land' at all. Can't be bothered to excavate the old version right
now.

                                                     Andreas

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