Re: Theory about the evolution of languages

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 09:39:53 -0400, Trebor Jung <treborjung@...> quoted someone:
> "[...] I [don't] think that possessive pronouns are the genitive case of
> personal pronouns; they act like adjectives, not like nouns."
There's two series of elements here; the pronominal adjectives "my, her,
their" etc., and the actual possessive pronouns "mine, hers, theirs" etc.
They work complementarily:

     This is Jane's cat      (adjective)
     This is her cat
    *This is hers cat

     This cat is Jane's      (pronoun)
    *This cat is her
     This cat is hers


	*Muke!
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