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Re: Genitive relationships (WAS: Construct States)

From:Tony Harris <tony.harris@...>
Date:Thursday, March 4, 1999, 17:37
>FFlores wrote: > >> Also, how do you indicate genitival relationships >> in your conlangs? Myself, I tend to use the good ol' >> genitive case, but in Ciravesu I simply resorted >> to juxtaposition (head-final). >
Aluric does a relatively standard genitive case, although the case itself is more accurately described as a combination locative/genitive = (instative? "my=E1nsva" in Aluric at any rate, from "my=E1" a root meaning "where"). So possession is also considered to have a locative quality at some level. Tony Harris Community College of Vermont tony.harris@ccvtest.ccv.vsc.edu