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Possible strategies: | Possible strategies: | ||
*Semitic-style construct with the head initial. Nothing can intervene | *Semitic-style construct with the head initial. Additionally, the possessum receives the ''-a'' marker whilst the possessor ''-u''. Nothing can intervene between them and its treated prosodically as one word. | ||
*Apposition can also be used | *:'''''ʔadam'''-a ʔabVr-u'' | ||
*:‘'''land''' (of) the bull’ | |||
*Apposition can also be used. | |||
*Adposition agreeing with possessor in gender and number - "genitival adjective". | *Adposition agreeing with possessor in gender and number - "genitival adjective". | ||
*Pronominally | *Pronominally by suffixing a dependent pronominal element to the noun. | ||
*:'''''maʔ'''-šV[+high] | |||
*:‘his '''water'''’ | |||
==Vocabulary== | ==Vocabulary== | ||