Re: Types of possession

On 12/16/05, Jefferson Wilson <jeffwilson63@...> wrote:

> 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
I think Tolkien had separate genitive and relative cases
in one of his languages -- the former for hand or house etc,
the latter for wife etc.

gjâ-zym-byn has a variety of postpositions corresponding
to the possessive or genitive, including:

sxâj-i		- in the possession of (but not necessarily belonging to)
wunx-i		- belonging to (but not necessarily in possession of)
sxu-i		- of (property, quality) (his height)
im		- part, faculty  (my hand, her imagination)
daxm-rq		- of, from, by (authorship, origin, source)
liqw-i		- of (personal relationship)

Some of their fields overlap, e.g. there are many
situations where sxâj-i and wunx-i are equally
applicable; for parents and other ancestors
daxm-rq and liqw-i may both be suitable; for
intangible properties/faculties sxu-i and im are
equally fitting, etc.

--
Jim Henry
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