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possessive adjective

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possessive adjective
n.
A pronominal adjective expressing possession.
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Inverse binding (extension of the binding domain) appears to be possible in (5) featuring an anaphor occurring as a complement of a noun (historie o sobie 'stories about -self') but not in (15) in which the anaphor takes the form of a possessive adjective (swoje siostry 'her own sisters').
Inverse binding and the status of the Spec. TP position in Polish by Tajsner, Przemyslaw / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
; "Why can't we use the possessive adjective instead of the definite article in la main or la maison?
Franco law: a design model in Francophone context by Nash, Caroline E. / Academic Exchange Quarterly
The attrition rate is stronger in phonology than in the morphological categories studied, such as the third person personal pronouns and the clitic ni (= `gli, le, loro, glielo'), the possessive adjectives mi, tu, su, impersonal first person plural conjugation (noi si va via), and verbal negation.
Stefania Scaglione. Attrition. Mutamenti sociolinguistici nel ... by Haller, Hermann W. / Italica
 
 
 
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