Genitive markers in derivation
Masja Tamm
tamm at LING.SU.SE
Mon Aug 16 13:07:04 UTC 1999
In Romani, nouns in the genitive case (which sometimes are classified as
possessive adjectives) can be used in various functions as dependents in
NPs - among others, to refer to possessors, material, etc. In addition, in
most (or all) varieties of Romani the same affix can be used to derive
other nouns, e.g. "o kerepaskero" 'the cook' from "kerepen" 'cooking', "i
xamaskeri" 'the table' from "xaben" 'food', "o vageskro" 'the garageman'
from "vago" 'car', etc. The nouns derived in this way can further inflect
for case as normal nouns do.
I am looking for similar phenomena in other languages.
Thanks for your assistance,
Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
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