[tied] Re: Verner's Law (Germanic)

> > But I'd suspect that "Gruppenflexion" genitives like "the
> > king of England's" _do_ originate in enclitic "his" (and
> > analogically "the queen of England's" as well).
> >
>
> That's not what my native Sprachgefühl tells me about 'medlemmerne
> af folketingets' "the members of the Folketing's". It's a genitive
> suffix, or vowel-less word.
>

In general: Danish (which BTW is one of the Germanic languages) has a
group genitive, but no -s plural. There is not much chance that the
group genitive -s is from 'hans' "his".

Even German has generalised the masc./neut. gen. -s to fem. in the
case of personal names: Annas etc



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