PossGender: possessor’s gender
Possessive adjectives and pronouns may have two different genders: that of the possessed object (gender agreement with modified noun) and that of the possessor (lexical feature, inherent gender). The PossGender feature captures the possessor’s gender. For simplicity, the set of possible values is identical to Gender, although only a subset has been observed in corpora so far.
In the Czech examples below, the masculine PossGender implies using one of the suffixes -ův, -ova, -ovo, and the feminine PossGender implies using one of -in, -ina, -ino.
Masc: masculine possessor
Examples: [cs] otcův syn (father’s son; PossGender=Masc|Gender=Masc); otcova dcera (father’s daughter; PossGender=Masc|Gender=Fem); otcovo dítě (father’s child; PossGender=Masc|Gender=Neut).
Fem: feminine possessor
Examples: [cs] matčin syn (mother’s son; PossGender=Fem|Gender=Masc); matčina dcera (mother’s daughter; PossGender=Fem|Gender=Fem); matčino dítě (mother’s child; PossGender=Fem|Gender=Neut).