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186:. (However, "This is the car I have" implies that it is the only car you have, whereas "This is my car" does not imply that to the same extent. Similarly, "my brother" can mean equally well "one of my brothers" as "the one brother I have".) It is not correct to precede possessives with an article (* 971:
could refer to a CD that I own, a CD owned by someone else but with music that I recorded as an artist, a CD that I have just given to someone here as a gift, or one with some other relation to me that would be identifiable in the
616:("She lost her hat"). In that respect, the possessive determiners in these languages resemble ordinary adjectives. French also correlates possessive determiners to both the plurality of the possessor and possessee, as in 683:("that your book black", rendered in English as "that black book of yours") are grammatically correct. In Italian, possessive determiners behave in almost every respect like adjectives. 384:(ktētikós). Term ktetic is used in reference to ktetic (possessive) adjectives and also to other ktetic (possessive) forms, including names derived from ktetics (ktetic personal names). 2234: 562:
Though in English the possessive determiners indicate definiteness, in other languages the definiteness needs to be added separately for grammatical correctness.
1554: 1671: 600:, the gender of the possessive determiners agrees with the thing(s) owned, not with the owner. French, for example, in the singular, uses 1615:
Payne, John, and Rodney Huddleston. (2002) "Nouns and Noun Phrases." Chap. 5 of Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum.
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Some languages use the same word for both the possessive determiner and the matching possessive pronoun. For example, in
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Here, a person does not own his or her mother, but rather has a close relationship with her. The same applies to
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Other possessive determiners (although they may not always be classed as such though they play the same role in
2537: 2506: 813:, the possessive determiner and possessive pronoun take the same form as each other: the form associated with 2324: 325:
Some authors who classify both sets of words as "possessive pronouns" or "genitive pronouns" apply the terms
628:, however, not all possessive determiners change to reflect the gender of the possessee, as is the case for 242:, the differences noted above make others not consider them adjectives, at least not in English, and prefer 2316: 2016: 1835: 1732: 1657: 1702: 156:, respectively the masculine singular, feminine singular and plural forms corresponding to the English 106:
but not as determiners. Possessive determiners may also be taken to include possessive forms made from
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have a large number of possessive classifiers that reflect both the possessor and the possessum:
138: 2001: 298:, they do not behave grammatically as stand-alone nouns but instead qualify another noun, as in 2372: 2199: 2108: 726:, also use different forms depending on the grammatical gender of the object owned. German has 377: 314:). For that reason, other authors restrict the term "possessive pronoun" to the group of words 1440: 2443: 2334: 2329: 2306: 2128: 2123: 2118: 2098: 2093: 2088: 2068: 1861: 1697: 1425: 848: 2448: 2382: 2214: 2171: 2073: 1936: 1896: 778: 8: 2229: 2209: 1856: 1527:. PALI language texts: Micronesia. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 182–4, 188, 192. 551: 267: 211: 31: 1649: 2395: 2362: 2288: 2273: 2258: 2248: 2161: 2156: 2146: 1941: 1871: 1866: 1348:* These forms are grammatically 3rd person plural, but refer to a naturally 2nd person. 986: 829: 723: 687: 566: 547: 368:
In linguistic terminology, possessive forms are also referred to as ktetic forms since
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For possessive determiners as elsewhere, the genitive does not always indicate strict
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the possessive is usually preceded by another determiner such as an article, as in
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In Norwegian bokmål written form, the phrase could alternatively be written as
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Possessive determiners, as used in English and some other languages, imply the
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for masculine nouns and also for feminine noun phrases starting with a vowel,
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For more details of the formation and use of possessives in English, see
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Some languages have no distinctive possessive determiners and express
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vol. 1). Copenhagen: Munksgaard; London: George Allen and Unwin.
852: 44: 198:), although they can combine with quantifiers in the same ways that 2490: 2485: 794: 295: 585:(my) is the possessive pronoun following feminine singular nouns. 2475: 2191: 1796: 1712: 393: 111: 190:) or (in today's English) another definite determiner such as a 2453: 2138: 1830: 1810: 550:. For more details about the use of determiners generally, see 487: 483: 38:, though they do not have the same syntactic distribution as 1776: 1689: 664:
agree with the gender and plurality of the possessee, e.g.
107: 750:(She lost her hat) respectively. Brabantian also inflects 16:
Determiner which modifies a noun by attributing possession
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Here, Bob most likely does not own the train and instead
214:). This is not the case in all languages; for example in 137:
In many languages, possessive determiners are subject to
444:). As noted above, they indicate definiteness, like the 1446:, Myrna Bell Rochester, McGraw Hill Professional, 2008 981:
Possessive determiners commonly have similar forms to
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means "pork; his pig (to eat)." As a further example,
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possessive determiners in Modern English are personal
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etc., which replaces directly a noun or noun phrase.
1600:. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 149–157. 486:) are the words and phrases formed by attaching the 1606:A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles. 997:, possessive determiners and possessive pronouns. 666:Esas niñas son nuestras. Ese bolígrafo es nuestro. 1244:unser, unsere, unserer, unseres, unserem, unseren 2524: 1636:A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. 1555:canoonet: Possessivpronomen und Possessivartikel 1364: 1391:"My Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster" 660:("My wife has my glasses"). Spanish possessive 310:substitutes for a complete noun phrase such as 1617:The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. 1491:"Oxford Languages | The Home of Language Data" 163: 1665: 1594:Greek Personal Names: Their Value as Evidence 1367:The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language 1247:unserer, unsere, unser(e)s, unseren, unserem 668:("Those girls are ours. That pen is ours."). 895:. Consider the following examples involving 257:, etc. are sometimes classified, along with 1369:. Cambridge University Press. p. 471. 1269:euer, euere, euerer, eueres, euerem, eueren 1215:sein, seine, seiner, seines, seinem, seinen 1172:le sien, la sienne, les siens, les siennes 1160:sein, seine, seiner, seines, seinem, seinen 1137:le tien, la tienne, les tiens, les tiennes 1125:dein, deine, deiner, deines, deinem, deinen 1112:le mien, la mienne, les miens, les miennes 1100:mein, meine, meiner, meines, meinem, meinen 1672: 1658: 1521:Rehg, Kenneth L.; Sohl, Damian G. (1981). 1365:Huddleston, Rodney; Pullum, Geoff (2002). 577:is the definite form of the feminine noun 1520: 1218:seiner, seine, sein(e)s, seinen, seinem 1163:seiner, seine, sein(e)s, seinen, seinem 1128:deiner, deine, dein(e)s, deinen, deinem 1103:meiner, meine, mein(e)s, meinen, meinem 985:. In addition, they have corresponding 134:, when used to modify a following noun. 1619:Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1336:Ihr, Ihre, Ihrer, Ihres, Ihrem, Ihren * 349:, etc. For example, under that scheme, 2525: 1587: 1477: 765:by declining personal pronouns in the 442:the car whose license plate was stolen 1653: 1591:(2000). "Ethnics as Personal Names". 1339:Ihrer, Ihre, Ihr(e)s, Ihren, Ihrem * 1301:ihr, ihre, ihrer, ihres, ihrem, ihren 1192:ihr, ihre, ihrer, ihres, ihrem, ihren 1002: 141:with the noun they modify, as in the 710:. Other Germanic languages, such as 222:("my car", literally "the my car"). 86:, but excluding those forms such as 1403:Jesperson (1949), pp. 399–405 1304:ihrer, ihre, ihr(e)s, ihren, ihrem 1272:eurer, eure, eur(e)s, euren, eurem 1195:ihrer, ihre, ihr(e)s, ihren, ihrem 920:people I am closely associated with 501:) to indefinite pronouns, nouns or 13: 1574:Longman Grammar of Spoken English. 557: 14: 2549: 1455:Payne and Huddleston 2002, p. 426 863:means "his (butchered) pig;" and 1511:due to bokmål's Danish heritage. 949:the train Bob plans to travel on 887:, but rather a general sense of 294:etc. However, unlike most other 54:include possessive forms of the 1547: 1514: 1501: 1483: 1281:le vôtre, la vôtre, les vôtres 1256:le nôtre, la nôtre, les nôtres 873:POSSESSIVECLASS:HONORIFIC-CANOE 702:; Dutch uses the (uninflected) 225: 1458: 1449: 1434: 1419: 1406: 1397: 1383: 1358: 959:(as in "The kids are enjoying 569:the phrase "my book" would be 438:the woman whose car was stolen 363:independent possessive pronoun 230:While some classify the words 1: 1352: 654:nuestra nuera y nuestro yerno 387: 1468:(1985) pp. 361–62 1313:le leur, la leur, les leurs 878: 825:is the possessive particle. 457:of whichever person or thing 355:dependent possessive pronoun 34:of English refer to them as 7: 1416:1999, pp. 340–42 999: 738:(with inflected forms like 730:(with inflected forms like 333:to refer, respectively, to 164:Comparison with determiners 10: 2554: 2507:Syntax–semantics interface 1562: 1524:Ponapean Reference Grammar 748:Sie hat ihren Hut verloren 744:Er hat seinen Hut verloren 381: 2419: 2381: 2343: 2315: 2190: 2137: 2059: 1849: 1784: 1775: 1688: 1341: 1320: 1317: 1285: 1263: 1260: 1228: 1225: 1220: 1171: 1168: 1165: 1141: 1119: 1116: 1084: 1081: 1011: 1008: 1005: 893:close identification with 658:Mi esposa tiene mis gafas 612:("He lost his hat") with 477:English personal pronouns 1927:Exceptional case-marking 1638:Harlow, Essex: Longman. 1604:Jespersen, Otto. (1949) 1576:Harlow, Essex: Longman. 1442:Easy French step-by-step 995:French personal pronouns 976: 859:means "his (live) pig;" 847:On the other hand, some 675:, constructions such as 614:Elle a perdu son chapeau 459:. Archaic forms include 306:, for example, in which 283:) forms of the ordinary 1733:Initial-stress-derived 1431:, Rosemary Allen, 2007 924:people I identify with 821:("my", "mine"), where 746:(He lost his hat) and 690:, such as English and 610:Il a perdu son chapeau 493:(or sometimes just an 376:has its equivalent in 373: 244:possessive determiners 20:Possessive determiners 2538:Genitive construction 2244:Inclusive / Exclusive 1318:Singular & Plural 849:Micronesian languages 533:the king of England's 327:dependent/independent 275:, since they are the 240:possessive adjectives 36:possessive adjectives 734:) for masculine and 509:). Examples include 471:before a vowel) and 32:traditional grammars 2124:Relative subsective 2017:Regular / Irregular 1862:Andative / Venitive 1698:Abstract / Concrete 1480:, p. 156, 157. 987:possessive pronouns 775:possessive suffixes 681:quel tuo libro nero 608:elsewhere; compare 552:English determiners 475:. For details, see 430:Whose coat is this? 268:possessive pronouns 212:English determiners 132:the king of Spain's 104:possessive pronouns 1683:and their features 1681:Lexical categories 869:tehnweren ohlo war 688:Germanic languages 548:English possessive 507:determiner phrases 505:(sometimes called 2520: 2519: 2325:Casally modulated 2230:Formal / Informal 2119:Pure intersective 2069:Anti-intersective 2055: 2054: 2002:Preterite-present 1630:Quirk, Randolph, 1497:on July 21, 2012. 1427:All about grammar 1345: 1344: 983:personal pronouns 874: 793:coupled with the 677:il tuo libro nero 642:mi hijo y mi hija 590:Romance languages 302:(contrasted with 285:personal pronouns 273:genitive pronouns 102:that are used as 56:personal pronouns 2545: 2099:Non-intersective 1782: 1781: 1674: 1667: 1660: 1651: 1650: 1601: 1599: 1589:Fraser, Peter M. 1568:Biber, Douglas, 1557: 1551: 1545: 1544: 1542: 1541: 1518: 1512: 1505: 1499: 1498: 1493:. 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Index

determiners
possession
traditional grammars
bona fide
adjectives
English
personal pronouns
possessive pronouns
nouns
pronouns
noun phrases
agreement
French
definite article
demonstrative
English determiners
Italian
possessive pronouns
possessive
genitive
personal pronouns
pronouns
Latin
Ancient Greek
pronominal
definite article
English personal pronouns
syntax
clitic
apostrophe

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