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Genitive relationships

From:Brian Betty <bbetty@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 3, 1999, 16:06
3-2-99, Pablo Flores wrote: "As you've seen, all Semitic langs do. But
reading those posts I realized a similar thing (totally unrelated) happens
in Welsh! I don't know too much about it, but I understand two noun phrases
in juxtaposition "A B" form a genitive construction "A of B". Is this a
general phenomenon?"

It is common to have 2 nouns AB as a genitive phrase, but actual construct
forms are strictly Egypto-Semitic as far as I can tell.

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