Re: [tied] Re: Re[2]: Evening/Night

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:05:22 +0100, g <st-george@...>
wrote:

>
>> "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?

The gen. suffix is -(n)In. The 3rd. person poss. is -(s)I.

>(If the latter is valid, than it resembles
>the Hungarian suffixation with -é and -ja, with the difference that the
>previous noun, unlike <kad?n+?n> in the example above, doesn't get any
>suffix.)

Right.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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