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I'm not sure what to do about posessive pronouns in Judajca, and i don't have my Latin Dictionary here at home in order to look at the exact wordforms that i could base stuff on (but i'll have it when i'm back at school in a week). Judajca, being Hebraified Romance, should have the same style as Hebrew does. The issue is, Hebrew has two different styles of posessives: 1. The suffix. This seems to be the original way of forming posessives: ex.: melekh (underlying form: malk)"king" + -i "my" = MALKI "my king" 2. Article + Which Is + To/Of. This is an innovation that developed, if i remember correctly, near the end of the Biblical era, although it seems to have been slow in developing from earlier. Maybe it was originally 'nonstandard' and therefore is missing from the corpus of texts. ha-melekh "the king" + she- "which is" + li "to/of me" = HAMELEKH SHELI This is also the source of the preposition |shel| "of" |hakisei she-la-hheder| = "the chair which is of the room" |hakisei shel hahheder| = "the chair of the room" Both Hebrew and Aramaic are able to double-up and use varients of both these styles at once: |mitat-o she-li-shelomo| = "his bed which is of Solomon" = Solomon's bed But now on to Judajca... I was thinking that a suffix posessive could develop the same way the construct case develops: nominative (construct) of noun + genetive (non-construct) of the pronoun Since i don't have my dictionary with me, let's make believe that the genetive of "me" is |mi|. So, in order to say "my water", you'd take the construct from of "water", |aquat|, and add the genetive of "me", resulting in: "my water" = |aquatmi| [O:k.asmi:] The |-mi| could even assimilate with the Hebrew |-i|, making it just |aquati| [O:k.O:si:]. An equivalent of the other, "the ___ which is of me", form, i'm not sure... i guess it would probably just be |hu-| (or |ha-|, i haven't decided about that yet), the noun, and then however you say "which" merged with the genetive of the pronoun? I also realized a possibly major problem with Judajca. The natural evolution of Hebrew as a linguistic system in and of itself pretty much stopped around the time of the Masoretes, c.800CE. We've got 1200 years from then until now, and i've been working out Judajca as following a Hebrew model which only lasts for a few hundred years. And how they spoke Judajca in 800CE couldn't possibly be the same as how Judajca is spoken in 2002CE, could it? -Stephen (Steg), brother of the Left-Handed Litvak "keil mevaser mevaser ve'eimer." ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.