Morphological case found in many languages (e.g. Latin, Russian, German) whose primary function is to mark an attribute of a noun. The most usual type of attribute is one of possession, which is why the genitive is often called a possessive marker in...

// n. or adj. (also possessive) A distinctive case form typically marking a noun phrase which serves a possessive role within a larger noun phrase. Examples are Lisa’s in Lisa’s new book and Basque Anaren ‘Ana’s’ in Anaren...

// n. The English construction in which the possessive affix -’s is attached to a large NP in such a way that the affix is separated from the head noun of the NP. Examples include The Wife of Bath’s Tale, the woman you were talking...

n. A construction involving a nominalization of a transitive verb accompanied by a possessive NP or a PP with of which is interpreted as the object of that verb, as in the prime minister’s assassination or the destruction of the city. Cf....

In grammar, the genitive case or possessive case (also called the second case) is the case that marks a noun as being the possessor of another noun. The genitive case typically has other uses as well, which can vary from language to language: it can...