From: Andrew Jarrette
Message: 44490
Date: 2006-05-07
How about this:
N1- N2 is actually N1 es(j)o N2; 'N1's N2' is 'N1 his/its
N2' as in Norwegian and Dutch today.
Torsten------------------I find it funny that you have suggested this, since it is identical to the reason why English spells its genitive singular with an apostrophe before the s: it was held to be a reduced form of his, e.g. "The King's English" was held to actually stand for "The King his English". But I believe most scholars have rejected this idea, and believe that the apostrophe-s is the modern reflex of the Old English genitive singular ending -es. I could be wrong, however.Andrew
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