Re: THEORY: Deriving adjectives from nouns

> About genitives ... there isn't just one type.
> English uses both subjective and objective types, as in
> "the conquest of Carthage by Rome" -> "a conquest of Rome.
> (That gets into adjectives too, "a Roman conquest".)
> English also has one "inverse" form, "'s", a vague type.
> So I guess there would be 5 possible genitives in total.
Aren't there more than that?  I once made a list of about thirty
translations of English "of".  Although many "of"s may indicate
indirect object rather than genetive.  If there are five genetives
then that makes 50 interpretations of "pretty little girls' school"
for the basic scheme I mentioned -- 10 different structures of
the phrase, ignoring the type of links, including the various types
of genetive.
I just got a flame mail from Mathias (first ever) for that post,
which really surprised me.  Geez, sorry for putting in my two cents.
I'll be gone soon enough; the list traffic is way too great for me to
keep up with lately and I've got cramming to do for my fall exams.

Josh