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Re: Possession and genitivity

From:caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
Date:Friday, April 29, 2005, 15:33
--- 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 http://wiki.frath.net/user:caeruleancentaur