possessive markers

[John Verhaar]

Hartmut Haberland is right. Nonstandard Dutch, too, has this
double-marking. Not on nouns, but on a pronoun possessor, as in
hem zijn boek
he:DAT his-book
(_zijn_ is mandatorily atonic as a head-marker).
        For a full treatment, see my "Head-marked possessive phrases in
Dutch", in _Leuvense Bijdragen_ 86 (1997): 89-108. Middle English also had
such constructions, as also in nonstandard Modern French.
John Verhaar