Almost all languages employ various structures expressing possession. Linguists recognise the rich variety of them. However, from the most general perspective, these structures can be divided into two groups, namely predicative and attributive ones. This division depends on syntactic structures used to express the relation discussed. The main types and subtypes of the realisation of the phenomenon so omnipresent in human categorisation as the relation of possession are presented and illustrated by a number of languages spoken all over the world.
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