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From: cg at home.cdegroot.com [mailto:cg at home.cdegroot.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 1:46 PM
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Subject: Re: Toch weer antwoord: RE: Antwoord: Squeak
Internationalization


Hannes Hirzel <hirzel at spw.unizh.ch> said:
>| Ellipse's |  width |
>
>  vs.
>
>| the width  |  of the Ellipse |
>
Because these sentences are incomplete, it's hardly an issue with SVO but
rather with the genitive being present/in common use, not? At least, I
cannot
discern a verb here...

In Dutch, the second form is definitely more natural than the first form

NOT for persons, you can easily say: Peter's lengte
But not for objects, you can not say; auto's lengte