Poss: possessive
| Values: | Yes |
Boolean feature of pronouns, determiners, and adjectives. It indicates whether the word is possessive.
While many tagsets would have “possessive” as one of the various pronoun types, this feature is intentionally separate from PronType, as it is orthogonal to pronominal types. Several pronominal types can be possessive, and so can nouns and adjectives.
In Armenian, nouns with a pronominal genitive suffix are common, e.g. հայրիկինը/hayrikinë “that of (the) father”, մայրիկինը/mayrikinë “that of (the) mother”, սեղանինը/seġaninë “that of the table”. For annotation purposes, such forms are split into two tokens: the noun and the pronominal genitive suffix (-նը/në). The suffix, rather than the noun, is annotated with Poss=Yes.
Note that archaic genitive forms of nouns, such as հայոց/hayocʼ “of the Armenians”, վրաց/vracʼ “of the Georgians”, Պարսից/Parsicʼ “of Persis” Վանա “of Van”, are not annotated with Poss=Yes.
Yes: it is possessive
Note that there is no No value. If the word is not possessive, the Poss feature will just not be mentioned in the FEAT column (which means that empty value has the No meaning).
Examples
- possessive personal pronouns / determiners: իմ/im “my”, քո/kʼo “your”, նրա/nra “ his/her/its”, մեր/mer “our”, ձեր/jer “your”, նրանց/nrancʼ “their”
- possessive emphatic pronouns / determiners: իր/ir “one’s own”, իրենց/irencʼ “their own”
- possessive adjectives: հայաստանյայց/hayastanyaycʼ “of Armenia, pertaining to Armenia”
Poss in other languages: [arr] [axm] [bej] [bg] [cs] [cy] [el] [en] [es] [ga] [gn] [gub] [hy] [it] [jaa] [ka] [myu] [naq] [oge] [pal] [pcm] [ps] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tpn] [u] [uk] [urj] [xcl] [xmf]