Re: Weekly Vocab 8
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 29, 2003, 0:10 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> Note that in subclauses, 'ga' can be replaced by 'no', normally the
> genitive marker.
And that historically, "ga" was also a genitive marker (preserved in the
prefix waga- "my", where the "wa" represents the archaic pronoun "ware",
IIRC, there are also some dialects that still use "ga" as a genitive),
the nominative use having originated in subclauses as well.
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