Re: Genitive relationships (WAS: Construct States)

At 12:37 04/03/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>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
>
>
        It makes remember Euskara which has two genitive cases, for "abstract"
possession (suffix -en if I remember well) and for locative possession
(suffix -ko), with -ko being widely used for surdeclination, -en less used
in that way.


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