possessive marking

[Dan I. SLOBIN]

Perhaps you're looking for something like Turkish:

	Manuel-in        baba-si
               GENITIVE       POSSESSIVE

        `Manuel's father'

Lewis provides the following description in his Turkish Grammar (Oxford,
1967:42):

	"The definite izafet is employed when the first element is a
definite person or thing to which or within which the second belongs. The
first noun has the genitive suffix, the second has the suffix of the third
person:  uzman-in rapor-u `the expert's report' (`of-the-expert
his-report'), hafta-nin gunler-i `the days of the week', uzman-in kendi-si
`the expert himself' (`of-the-expert his-self'), Istanbul-un kendi-si
`Istanbul itself'."

-Dan Slobin
University of California, Berkeley