Re: names for cases

On 3/28/06, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
> [1] Just last night I found a cool thing I may snatch: head-marking
> possessive or whatever it should be called, e.g. "the boy his-bicycle".
> Colloquial German and Norwegian do this, BTW: "Der Junge sein Fahrrad".
"Dem Junge sein Fahrrad" in the varieties I'm aware of (with dative):
"to the boy, his bicycle".

I think Turkish does that kind of thing as a rule, with the sequence
possessor - possessed+possessive.suffix, i.e. double marking of
possession through suffix *and* overt possessor. Possibly only for
third person, though.

For example, Avrupa Bankası (last letter is dotless-i) "Europe
bank-its" = "Bank of Europe".

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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