Re: Re[2]: Evening/Night

From: g
Message: 36213
Date: 2005-02-10

> "Completing our list of constituents of the noun phrase is
> the relative order of possessive (genitive) G and head noun
> (N), again giving two possible orders, GN and NG. The
> former is illustrated by Turkish <kadIn-In çavug~-u> "the
> woman's chicken", literally 'woman-GENITIVE chicken-her';

Does -u really mean "her" here or is it actually only the
possessive/genitive suffix? (If the latter is valid, than it resembles
the Hungarian suffixation with -é and -ja, with the difference that the
previous noun, unlike <kadın+ın> in the example above, doesn't get any
suffix.)

> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal

George