Which of these are (a) grammatical (b) part of the standard language (c) correct AND (d) what would you say (to your friends/to your professor)?
present-day English: my father’s house
Middle English: the miller his tale (Chaucer, 14th century)
German: meines Vaters Haus
German: das Haus meines Vaters
German: das Haus von meinem Vater
German: meinem Vater sein Haus
Irish: an teach aig m’athair ‘the house with my-father’
How is possession expressed in some of the languages that you speak?
