Re: A grammar of Friulian

On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> En réponse à Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>:
>
> > Taking a look at it, it has a table of possessive pronouns. The table
> > includes plural and singular versions of my, your (sing.),
> > his/her/its,
> > our, your (pl) and their. What is the difference b/n plural `my' and
> > `our'? or `my' and sing. `our'?
> >
>
> Like in other Romance languages, possessive adjectives in Friulian
> agree in number with the possessed! So each possessive has a singular
> (for possessing one object) and a plural (for possessing more than one
> object). French has the same ('mon' for a single masculine object
> possessed by me, 'ma' for a single feminine object possessed by me,
> 'mes' for two or more objects possessed by me, while 'notre' for a
> singular object possessed by us and 'nos' for more than one object
> possessed by us).
>
> It was clear in the page that the singular vs. plural columns referred
> to number agreement with the completed noun :)) .
I didn't think so. I did read it twice to see if I'd missed it. But now I
see that `pronominal possesives agree with the possessed head' must've
been that... I think I prefer English's agreement method ;)

It probably helps that you speak a Romance language and I only English :(
and, although I like reading grammars, I think this is the first
Romance-lang grammar I've read.

Tristan

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