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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes  Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 17 of 17 09 April 2010 at 11:24pm | IP Logged |
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A German verb with a genitive: freuen ("freut euch des Lebens")
A (very rare) Greek construction with two articles: Το θέμα είναι ότι το δικού μου το νιονιό μου προκαλεί το άγχος [hyperliteral translation: "the point is that 'the [dummy-demonstrative] my the reason' me causes the stress") I don't remember any terminology for the two parts of a two-word expression in English (or a parallel one-word expression in for instance German), so we are on our own here. I see attempts to use words like 'Genitive' or 'Adjectival' as inspired by cases where these words really have a clear meaning, mostly because there is some morphological markers present, so they are not suitable here. In the absence of such markers we are basically just trying to establish a semantical description, and then it would be better to use a terminology that clearly indicated this. In fact the dichotomy of 'objective' and 'subjective' genitives in Latin is a semantic distinction, whereas the case "genitive" is something that is marked morphologically. Edited by Iversen on 09 April 2010 at 11:47pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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