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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Construct state
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In article <4lne5e$l6i@post.tau.ac.il>,
danon gabi <danon@ccsg.tau.ac.il> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>In Semitic languages, there's something called a construct state, which is a
>way of assigning genitive case inside a noun phrase; I've heard it exists
>in Irish, and maybe some other languages? Does anybody know about any
>non-semitic languages that have this? If so, do these languages have
>definite/indefinite articles?

There are some parallels to the "izafeh" in Persian (which has a definite
article).  Nothing like either of these constructions exists in Irish,
though.


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