Re: Possessive and Genitive

Quoting Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>:

> Is there any difference in meaning between the terms possessive an
> genitive? The former tends to be used when referring to English, the latter
> to other languages, but what they refer to doesn't seem to differ much (a
> case of a noun or pronoun indicating that the marked noun or pronoun is the
> owner of another).
ObMyConlang: I can't answer the question for "universal" linguistic
terminology, but in the Klaishic language family, I use "possessive" for the
ancestral case indicating possession, and "genitive" for the Tairezan -i case,
of adjectival origin, which usurped the the place of the possessive.

                                                           Andreas