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Possessive may be:

  • Possessive case
    Possessive case

    The possessive case of a language is a grammatical case used to indicate a relationship of Possession . It is not the same as the genitive case, which can express a wider range of relationships, though the two have similar meanings in many languages....
  • Possessive adjective
    Possessive adjective

    What are traditionally and popularly, if mistakenly, called possessive adjectives — in linguistic analyses possessive pronouns, possessive determiners or genitive pronouns — are a part of speech that prototypically modifies a noun by attributing possession to someone or something ....
  • Possessive pronoun
    Possessive pronoun

    A possessive pronoun is a part of speech that attributes ownership to someone or something. Like all other pronouns, it substitutes a noun phrase and can prevent its repetition....
  • Possessive suffix
    Possessive suffix

    In linguistics, a possessive suffix is a suffix attached to a noun to indicate its possession , much in the manner of possessive adjectives. Possessive suffixes do not exist in all languages; they do exist in some Uralic languages, Semitic languages, and Indo-European languages languages....
  • Possessive construction, pattern among words indicating possession (linguistics)
    Possession (linguistics)

    Possession, in the context of linguistics, is an asymmetric relationship between two constituents, the referent of one of which possession the referent of the other....


See also

  • Possession
    Possession

    In law, possession is the control a person intentionally exercises toward a thing. In all cases, to possess something, a person must have an intention to possess it....
     (disambiguation)
  • Possessed (disambiguation)
  • The Dispossessed
    The Dispossessed

    The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia is a 1974 utopian science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, set in the same fictional universe as that of The Left Hand of Darkness ....
    , novel