Compared with these two powers all the others are inconsiderable, both in number and importance; and if, as in the Greek and Latin languages, they take up a large space in the grammars, it is from their exceptional character rather than from their normal Genitival signification.
"The English Language"
Robert Gordon Latham
This question is material; inasmuch as, although the present writer believes, for his own part, that the forms under discussion are adjectival rather than Genitival, this is not the point upon which he insists.
"The English Language"
Robert Gordon Latham
What he insists upon is the fact of the Genitival character of mine and thine requiring a particular proof; which particular proof no one has yet given: in other words, his position is that they are not to be thought genitive until proved to be such.
"The English Language"
Robert Gordon Latham