Re: Theory about the evolution of languages

Muke Tever wrote:

> 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


Well, that's certainly debateable.  Could be a noun or an adjective, in
my opinion.