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adnominal possessive strategy (str)
a.k.a. adnominal possessive (strategy),genitive strategy
a strategy for the presentational possession construction in which the possessor is expressed not by an argument phrase but with a possessive modification construction. Example: Mokilese mine woaroa-n woal-o war [exist clf-3sg man-that canoe]
That man has a canoe[lit.
That man's canoe exists] is an instance of the adnominal possessive strategy. The adnominal possessive strategy is an instance of the internal possessor strategy. (Section 10.4.2)
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