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Re: Theory about the evolution of languages

From:Muke Tever <hotblack@...>
Date:Thursday, August 19, 2004, 3:10
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! -- website: http://frath.net/ LiveJournal: http://kohath.livejournal.com/ deviantArt: http://kohath.deviantart.com/ FrathWiki, a conlang and conculture wiki: http://wiki.frath.net/

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