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Joe Martin Date: Fri Mar 17, 2000 5:43 am Subject: The view from ringside | |
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Wayne in Maine wrote: > >SEE and other systems have dealt with. Maybe a special accusative >case > >marker??? > In modern English, "mine" is a possessive pronoun, substituting for a > known noun ("That is her car and this is mine"). "My" is a possessive > adjective which must be followed by a noun ("my car"). In Old English (yes, > Beowulf and all that), "my" was indeed "min" which developed into modern > English "mine" but lost its adjectival use except for a few fossilized forms > ("Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord" starts out the > Battle Hymn of the Republic). In any event, it would not have been nor is > it now an accusative case marker. For first person singular, the accusative > case form would be "me". Actually an accusative case "marker" would be like > the Japanese particle "(w)o" placed after a noun to mark it as the direct > object of the verb. RINGSIDE, UP TO THE MINUTE REPORT: Joe loses another FULL POINT for saying accusative instead of possessive! He is now trailing by 2 and a half points! Things are looking bad for him.... (it's hard to put up a good fight with *both your feet in your mouth. (:-( However, he's not down yet; there's still some fight in him----see the next post. :-) |
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