CHAPTER XXXVII.

ON THE GRAMMATICAL POSITION OF THE WORDS _MINE_ AND _THINE_.

446. Peculiarities of inflection of pronouns 380 447. Powers of the genitive case 381 448. Ideas of possession and partition 382 449. Adjectival expressions 382 450. Evolution of cases 383 451. Idea of possession 383 452. Idea of partition 383 {xxxiv} 453. _A posteriori_ argument 384 454-458. Analogy of _mei_ and [Greek: emou] 384 459. Etymological evidence 386 460. Syntactic evidence 387 461. Value of the evidence of certain constructions 387 462, 463. Double adjectival form 388