Re: A New Conlang For Your Consideration

Hawaiian makes these kinds of distinctions.  There are
things owned and things not owned but merely possesed.
 Things that are part of me like my hands, my feet,
and people related to me like my son, my mother, my
uncle (which are also distinguished)

"My boy" might mean "my son" or it might mean the kid
that works for me depending on which possesive is
used.

--gary

--- John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:
> takatunu scripsit:
>
> > But then why have n different "genitive" cases?
> ;-)
>
> Well, there's a fundamental distinction between "my
> chair" (the one
> I happen to be sitting on) and "my chair" (the one I
> own); and there
> can even be a distinction between "my heart" (in my
> chest) and
> "my heart" (in a jar on my desk).
>