Re: Types of possession
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 16, 2005, 23:45 |
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On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:19:11 -0500, Jefferson Wilson
<jeffwilson63@...> wrote:
> The Glyphica Arcana has no inflection for possession. Instead,
> possession is shown through subordinate phrases ("of . . ."). My
> current problem is defining the types of possession used by the GA.
> (Though I haven't checked the archives yet, I will be doing that soon.)
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> Now, "hand of mine," "house of mine," and "wife of mine" are all going
> to be different possessives. What should I call them and what other
> forms of possession should I define?
I'd go with the partitive, possessive and associative genetives,
respectively.
Question for the group: Where would you classify "the king of England"? It
flits between possessive and associative in my mind.
"Should" is a very broad term when it comes to the design of conlangs. You
should define as many as make you happy. I don't know of a book that deals
at great length with possession alone. You could check Payne[1] and
Comrie[2] for the best treatments I know of.
[1]Thomas E Payne, _Describing Morphosyntax_, Cambridge University Press
[2]Bernard Comrie, _Language Universals And Linguistic Typology_,
University of Chicago Press
Paul
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