CASA|Con The CASA-ConstructiCon of the English Language


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Name Genitive-NP Construction
Semantic function of cxn Establishing a relation between a REFERENT and a POSSESSOR.
Semantic role of slots POSSESSOR REFERENT
Syntactic form
president’s state’s government’s week’s party’s court’s night’s ...Nsg ending in voiceless consonant except /s, ʃ, tʃ//s/<'s>
world’s people’s year’s mother’s man’s nation’s father’s company’s city’s country’s ...Nsg ending in vowel or voiced consonant except /z, ʒ, ʤ//z/
church’s judge’s horse’s …Nsg ending in /s, z, ʃ, ʒ, tʃ, ʤ//ɪz/
women’s children’s …Npl in <en>/z/
students’ partners’ teachers’ …Npl in <s>/z/<s'>
 N
Collo-profile
his  my  her  your  their  our  its  one's  everyone's  everything's  everybody's  nobody's  each other's  
General cxn-type GENITIVE CONSTRUCTION
Construction family NP CONSTRUCTION
Literature Herbst & Hoffmann (2023: Ch.5)
Annotators/Date TRH/04/21F