Query Details
| Query Subject: |
Unmarked possessives
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| Author: | Joost Kremers |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email |
| Query: |
Hello all, There are apparently languages that do not mark possessives in any way. They simply juxtapose two nouns to express possession. So for example to express "John's car", they would say either "car John" or "John car". I am looking for references to any studies dealing with this phenomenon, either in specific languages or in general. I would also be very gratefulif anyone could tell me about languages that use this structure, because so far I have only found a very few cases. Thanks in advance, Joost Kremers - Joost Kremers, M.A. University of Nijmegen Department of Languages and Cultures of the Middle-Eas PO Box 9103 6500 HD Nijmegen tel: 024-3612996 fax: 024-3611972 http://joostkremers.nijmegennet.nl |
