- A
possessive or
ktetic form (abbreviated POS or POSS; from Latin: possessivus;
Ancient Gr****: κτητικός, romanized: ktētikós) is a word or
grammatical construction...
- more letters, e.g. the
contraction of "do not" to "don't" The
marking of
possessive case of
nouns (as in "the eagle's feathers", "in one month's time", "the...
- In English,
possessive words or
phrases exist for
nouns and most pronouns, as well as some noun phrases.
These can play the
roles of
determiners (also...
-
language has
different ways of
expressing the
possessive relation.
There are
several "verbal
possessive"
forms based on
verbs with the
sense of "to possess"...
- In linguistics, a
possessive affix (from Latin:
affixum possessivum) is an
affix (usually
suffix or prefix)
attached to a noun to
indicate its possessor...
-
Possessive determiners are
determiners which express possession. Some
traditional grammars of
English refer to them as
possessive adjectives,
though they...
-
English grammar, a
pronoun has a
possessive antecedent if its
antecedent (the noun that it
refers to)
appears in the
possessive case; for example, in the following...
- the
modifying noun) in the
construct state.
Possessive grammatical constructions,
including the
possessive case, may be
regarded as
subsets of the genitive...
-
personality disorder. Typically,
narcissistic parents are
exclusively and
possessively close to
their children and are
threatened by
their children's growing...
-
juxtaposition of nouns,
possessive case,
possessed case,
construct state (as in
Arabic and Nêlêmwa), or
adpositions (
possessive suffixes,
possessive adjectives)....
