Re: Diffrent possessions

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:30:55 -0400, Hemmo <kyrawertho@...> wrote:

>What I mean are the translations of the word "of": in the sentence "his
>leg" the leg is a possession because "he" owns the leg. In the sentences
>"his arrival" or "the arrest of …" it seems to me the arrival and the
>arrest are things that are being done and therefore are no possession, but
>are treated as such. Is there some kind of difference in terms for this? Or
>could I work around it somehow?
gjax-zym-byn has a bunch of postpositions signifying various genitive relationships.

pq sxaxj-i       keq'nu
3  have.stuff-at canoe
his canoe

pq i-m        sriqw
3  in-part.of leg
his leg

pq sxu-i           huw
3  have.quality-at happiness
his happiness

pq rynq-i  runx
3  deed-at coming
his arrival

pq liqw-i      kyn-sxaxm
3  relation-at parent-womb
his mother

The abstract postpositions are derived from a root word plus
one of the core spacetime postpositions - in these examples, [i], "at, in, during".

--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/gzb/gzb.htm