A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics
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/ n. A general name for any relation between two noun phrases by which the second in some sense ‘belongs to’ the first.
Possession is expressed in two main ways: (1) by a possessive construction, in which both NPs involved typically form a single larger NP, as in the English Lisa’s eyes or the French les vins d’Alsace; (2) by a predication of possession, as in the English Lisa has a car. A typology of possessive constructions is given in Croft (1990).
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