ABSTRACT
When I hear, ‘The baby cried. The mommy picked it up,’ one thing I hear is that the mommy who picks the baby up is the mommy of the baby. That is a first observation. (You will, of course, notice that the second sentence lacks a genitive. It does not read, ‘Its mommy picked it up,’ or variants thereof.)
Now it is not only that I hear that the mommy is the mommy of the baby, but I feel rather confident that, at least many of the natives among you hear that also. That is a second observation.
