Talk:Possessive affix

A word left out in the introductory text? (knowing Nenets morphology is required to correct it properly)

Did you leave out the word person in

Complicated systems are found in the Uralic languages; for example, the Nenets language has 27 (3×3×3) different forms for expressing the possessor (first, second, third), the number of possessors (singular, dual, plural) and the number of objects (singular, dual, plural).

--Imz 02:35, 17 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Russian

While I don't know anything about the Russian language, I've heard that the –ин (–in) suffix is a possesive one. Could someone that knowns Russian add something about it? --Dandin1 18:34, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Russian grammar does not mention that suffix, nor anything that sounds like a possessive suffix. Googling for "ин" plus "suffix", I do find that some pages use the term "possessive suffix" to describe "-ин", but they seem to mean something different by it: it seems that adding the suffix "ин" to a Russian noun serves rather like adding the preposition "of" to an English one, enabling a possessive relationship to be shown. (I'm not sure how this differs from a simple genitive case ending, which Russian grammar lists a bunch of, but it seems to be in the same vein.) Ruakh 14:30, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

English

The most obvious reason why a person would click "Possessive suffix" in English Wikipedia is to learn about the proper use of 's. Perhaps there is no English section because you consider 's a clitic, not a possessive suffix. But to non-specialists, a suffix used for possession is a possessive suffix, so there should be an explanation that 's isn't (or is) a possessive suffix. More importantly, there should be a prominent link up on top to Apostrophe#Possessive apostrophe, because that's what your readers are looking for, not Finnish, Hungarian, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish. You might also mention languages that are more familiar to English speakers, especially Spanish, French and German. Art LaPella 03:06, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

– Art LaPella 05:13, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hittite

I read somewhere that Hittite language had possessive suffixes. --85.156.236.196 (talk) 17:01, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Can't find them in the Calvert Watkins article in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Languages (ISBN 0-521-56256-2), and this article shouldn't be a list of all such languages. AnonMoos (talk) 17:35, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]