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Re: Case?

From:Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...>
Date:Saturday, January 26, 2002, 11:08
Okay, I had an easy fix for this built into my
language.  I'll take the root "their"--musa--and break
it down:
m: indicates a full pronoun root (though, of course,
lots of non-pronouns start with "m")
u: third-person plural
sa: genitive

Now, the -sa ending also can be treated as a
possessive and so could simply be stuck on, musasa, to
mean "theirs", with no change in my grammar.

Clint


--- Aidan Grey <grey@...> wrote:
> > > --What is the case of "theirs" in "I gave them > > > theirs"? I realized I was missing this case in > my > > > pronouns and need it. > > > > >Genetive. You can easily avvoid messing up your > language by saying "of > >them", if that's easier. > > No, it's not genitive. "I gave them of them?" > Nope. > > It is the accusative of a genitive possessive > pronoun. > > I gave (that thing of) theirs (to) them. > > Hopefully that helps better, Clint. > > Aidan (formerly a Clint)
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