Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Big Mac/reply (6)

Interesting. Currently, in standard Yiddish fun (cognate to von) with dative agreement is the only way to express possession by nonhuman nouns, but human nouns have an English-like choice between that and the Saxon genitive (regularly appended -s). Why did English go for the genitive ("possessive") as its last oblique case instead of something more useful? Do you know how that came about?

PS: Evidently is more impressive than I thought, and can handle multiple genitives with ease.