Re: Standard Average European (was: case system)
| From: | <morphemeaddict@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 12, 2008, 6:01 |
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In a message dated 4/11/2008 16:25:09 PM Central Daylight Time,
rfmilly@MSN.COM writes:
> 7.dative external possessors;
> **Wha?? or does it mean like French c'est a moi 'it's mine' ?? I'm not sure
> Germanic or other Romance have anything like this.
>
Or maybe something like German "Leg es mir auf dem Stuhl!" (Put it on my
chair). The possessive is indicated by the dative pronoun, not by any possessive
pronoun or adjective. Russian does the same thing.
stevo </HTML>
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