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Examples of possessor

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She argues that these differences are the reflex of different underlying representations for the two types of possessor relations.
Therefore, a valid comparison of populations of speakers requires that the same head nouns and possessors types be used in all groups.
Table 5 displays how thematicity of the possessor dovetails with genitive variation.
Moreover, if the reflexive in possessor position is stressed, it cannot be dropped.
The incorporation of rural gentry also prevented unrest in the countryside, by aligning the main possessors of armed force with the imperial state.
The possessed noun must immediately precede the possessor.
In such cases, the possessors are highly animate things (animals, rivers, trees), or the locations of human instruments.
Therefore, when a verb which does not lexicalize caused possession is found in the double object variant the first object has an intended possessor interpretation.
In non-argument-taking nouns possessives are always interpreted as possessors.
Again, they share the meaning that the possessor is predicated through or in its possessee.
However, within the noun-phrase template, the value of the possessor slot will, in turn, be used to instantiate an embedded template, possessive-pronoun.
The rest of the book concentrates on 'quantificational possessives', those in which the possessor phrase contains a quantificational determiner: every woman's father for example.
He claims that possessives normally receive an asymmetric reading with the possessor dominating, while also admitting a symmetric reading - but never a possessee-dominant reading.
The absolutive suffix indicates the absence of a possessor.
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