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Re: Possession and genitivity

From:Joseph Bridwell <zhosh@...>
Date:Sunday, May 1, 2005, 18:26
> b. Colloquial: > > dem Jungen sein Buch > ART.sg.m.DAT boy 3sg.m.GEN book > > "the boy his book"
Cool. 90% of my German is High German. IIRC, this resembles a structure in Cree and other Algonquin languages, except that those use a locative instead of a dative.