Re: The 'have' of possession

On 01/05/24 00:37, jerryfriedman wrote:

Peter Moylan wrote:

Many thanks to both you and Ross. I didn't realise that it's a
well-studied phenomenon, and that the "mihi est" form survived in
Latin and Greek into relatively modern times. Nor did I know that
it's found in language families all over the world.

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Does that mean you found out that it's the same in Hebrew?  Yesh li
tapuach, there-is to-me apple.

Thanks for the extra example. I haven't yet looked at the map Ross
pointed to -- for some reason it won't display in my web browser, so
I've had to send the message to another computer -- but from the
accompanying text it's not surprising that Hebrew is in that group.
I started out thinking it was a European phenomenon, but in fact it
appears that Europe is the place where the dative possessive is dying out.
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Peter Moylan                         http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW