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Re: Possessive Suffixes

From:Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 17, 2005, 0:43
In a message dated 5/16/2005 5:13:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
magwich78@YAHOO.COM writes:


>Does anyone know the mechanism(s) by which possessive suffixes develop in >languages? Thanks in advance.
Are we talking about suffixes that go on the possessor, or suffixes that go on the possessed noun, or both? Doug