Re: Possession and genitivity

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Joseph Bridwell <zhosh@2...> wrote:

> be used for more abstract relationships (shape
> classifiers, for instance: "a sheet of paper"
> is "lhazhi rjaxat" with "paper" in the genitive
> case).
>>This is sometimes called the partitive or false possessive.
I know this usage, rather, as the Genitive of Material or Contents,
e.g., a
sheet of paper, a jug of wine, a herd of cattle, a spring of fresh
water.

The Genitive of the Whole (or the Partitive Genitive) denotes
something of which only a part is relevant: some of the men, many of
the witnesses, five of the horses.

Charlie
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