possessive marking

David Beck dbeck at CHASS.UTORONTO.CA
Sun Aug 15 13:43:14 UTC 1999


I guess I owe everyone an apology for making a badly-worded request. Let me
explain more carefully what I am looking for.

English is a dependant-marking possessive language because it marks the
possessor with 's -- e.g. Manuel's father -- and the possessor is
syntactically a dependant of the possessed.

Totonac is a head-marking possessive language because it marks the
possessed -- e.g. ix-taati' Manuel 'Manuel's father'

What I am interested in is languages that mark both the possessor and the
possessed overtly in some way, preferbly (but not necessarily) with a bound
morpheme  -- like  ix-taati' Manuel's (Totolish).

Again, sorry for the sloppiness.

David

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David Beck
Programme in Linguistics
University of Michigan
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Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
USA
e-mail: dbeck at umich.edu
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