Re: Genitive relationships (WAS: Construct States)
| From: | Tim Smith <timsmith@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 14, 1999, 23:30 |
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At 09:55 PM 3/11/99 -0500, I wrote:
>[snip stuff about the Hwendaaru genitive construction]
>For instance, "the
>big house" is:
>
>nominative: tsaamu klaathu
>accusative: tsaamuk klaathuk
>but inessive: tsaamung klaathurelme, not *tsaamurelme klaathurelme
Oops! This is what happens when you don't read your own notes. _tsaamu_
means "old", not "big". "The big house" would be _vouzhu klaathu_ (with the
same case suffixes).
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