Comparative Concept: adnominal possessive strategy (str)

adnominal possessive strategy (str)

Typ strategy
Alias(se) adnominal possessive strategy • adnominal possessive • adnominal possessive (strategy) • genitive strategy
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Definition

a strategy for the presentational possession construction in which the possessor is expressed not by an argument phrase but with a possessive modification construction. Example: Mokilese mine woaroa-n woal-o war [exist clf-3sg man-that canoe] 'That man has a canoe' [lit. 'That man's canoe exists'] is an instance of the adnominal possessive strategy. The adnominal possessive strategy is an instance of the internal possessor strategy. (Section 10.4.2)