Comparative Concept: have-possessive strategy (str)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
have-possessive strategy (str)
| Typ | strategy (def) |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | have-possessive strategy • action strategy |
| Assoziiert | |
| Spraakbanken | have-possessive strategy (str) |
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Hierarchy
Definition
a strategy for the presentational possession construction in which the possessor is expressed in a subject phrase, and the possessum in an object phrase. Example: English Kerry has a laptop is an instance of the have-possessive strategy. (Section 10.4.2)