Re: Help with case names

Daniel Andreasson wrote:
>I think you can throw in the genitive _-s_ in Swedish as well.
>Like in "Mannen som bor i lägenheten därborta*s* hund." Lit.
>"The man who lives in the apartment over there*'s* dog."

Good heavens.  I didn't think any language but English could do things like
that!! Certainly not Spanish (mutatis mutandis)-- "el perro del hombre que
vive en la casa allá...."
Nor Indonesian: "anjing orang yang tinggal di rumah disana itu" both "the
dog of the man who lives in the house over there" (cf. anjing orang itu
'that man's dog')

Probably not a statistically valid sample of languages, however.......

Nor of course Kash (no dogs):  lopa kaçuti ya re yayeçen ri puna riyan 'the
_lopa_  man(gen.) who he-lives in the house over-there'

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