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Genitive apposition

From:Racsko Tamas <tracsko@...>
Date:Sunday, February 15, 2004, 11:54
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.

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Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>