Re: Types of possession

Jefferson Wilson 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.)
>
> 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?  The GA can also define more
> specific forms of possession which fit inside the lexical space of less
> specific forms, so the field for definitions is currently wide open.
Well, I've just finished verse 7 of the Babel text (see
http://www.meanspc.com/~jeff_wilson63/myths/BabelTarot.html#Babel7)
and it turns out that the GA _does_ have a generic form of
possession.  It turns out the indirect object can be used to
indicate possession so that "their speech" (for example) can be
rendered THEY (IndObj) SPEECH (DirObj).  I don't know how common
this formation is, or if combining it with what I've said
previously about indirect objects may confuse certain cases.  It
seems to work right now.

Most cases of possession will not work this way, so I do still
need info. on types of possession.

--
Jefferson
http://www.picotech.net/~jeff_wilson63/myths/