http://www.fridaycircle.com/2009/02/07/possessed-by-possession/ Hungarian Studies in London Wed, 12 May 2010 09:18:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.fridaycircle.com/2009/02/07/possessed-by-possession/comment-page-1/#comment-335 Jim Tucker Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:50:13 +0000 http://www.fridaycircle.com/?p=581#comment-335 Yes, English now has the genitive -- but note that the origin of "John's house" was of course "John his house", which is much closer to the Hungarian than is apparent in the modern English form, if we take "his house" as a unit. Yes, English now has the genitive — but note that the origin of “John’s house” was of course “John his house”, which is much closer to the Hungarian than is apparent in the modern English form, if we take “his house” as a unit.

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