Comparative Concept: locational possessive strategy (str)

locational possessive strategy (str)

Typ strategy
Alias(se) locational possessive strategy • goal strategy • location strategy • locational possessive • locational possessive (strategy)
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Definition

a strategy for the presentational possession construction in which the possessum is expressed in a subject phrase and the possessor in an oblique phrase which is locative, or probably locative, in origin. Example: Russian u menja mašina [at me car] 'I have a car' is an instance of the locational possessive strategy. The locational possessive strategy essentially recruits a locative clause, in particular a presentational locative, to express possession. (Section 10.4.2)