Grevena Greek possession profile

@cite{stassen-2009} @cite{nichols-1986} @cite{heine-1997} @cite{michelioudakis-chatzikyriakidis-spathas-2024} @cite{kampanarou-alexiadou-2026}

PossessionProfile bundle for Grevena Greek (GG; Northern Greek dialect), the genitive-loss endpoint within the Modern Greek dialect continuum.

What makes GG different from SMG

In GG, inflectional genitive has been entirely lost on common nouns (@cite{michelioudakis-chatzikyriakidis-spathas-2024}); its functions are served by apo-PPs across the board. GG apo-PPs differ from SMG apo-PPs (per @cite{kampanarou-alexiadou-2026} §4, Table 3): they can stack/iterate, can be fronted, can be sub-extracted, and express the full range of pragmatically implied relations — paralleling Romance de/di genitives. Michelioudakis et al. analyse them as reduced relative clauses adjoining within the DP. This is exactly the structure SMG apo-PPs cannot be — see Kampanarou & Alexiadou 2026 §4 for the contrast.

The only inflectional genitives surviving in GG are on pronominal clitics and proper names (or proper-name-like nouns including kinship terms in some sub-varieties), echoing other Indo-European languages where genitive relics persist with proper names (German Hans' Buch).

Cross-dialectal contrast

Together with Fragments/Greek/Possession.lean (SMG, transitional) and Fragments/Greek/Smyrna/Possession.lean (over-extended, opposite direction), GG is one of three sibling profiles needed to support Kampanarou & Alexiadou's bidirectional cross-dialectal argument: SMG sits on a continuum between Smyrna's over-extension and GG's complete loss.

def Fragments.Greek.Grevena.Possession.apoNotions : List Typology.Possession.PossessiveNotion

Heine notions expressible by GG apo-PPs. Unlike SMG (where apoNotions is restricted to inanimate part-whole/source readings), GG apo-PPs cover the full range that SMG inflectional genitive covers (per @cite{michelioudakis-chatzikyriakidis-spathas-2024} (19), discussed by @cite{kampanarou-alexiadou-2026} §4 ex. 16a).

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def Fragments.Greek.Grevena.Possession.genNotions : List Typology.Possession.PossessiveNotion

Heine notions still expressible by GG inflectional genitive — only on pronominal clitics and proper names (and some kinship terms in some sub-varieties), per @cite{michelioudakis-chatzikyriakidis-spathas-2024} discussed in @cite{kampanarou-alexiadou-2026} §4. The empty common-noun coverage is the dialect's defining feature.

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def Fragments.Greek.Grevena.Possession.possession : Typology.Possession.PossessionProfile

Grevena Greek possession profile.

adnominalStrategy := .juxtaposition reflects the loss of inflectional GEN on common nouns; the apo-PP variant carries the load. The label is approximate — juxtaposition is the closest WALS-mapped category for "no morphological possessor marking on the noun, possession encoded by phrasal means" — but the genuine analysis (per Michelioudakis et al.) is reduced relative clause adjunction, which the substrate doesn't distinguish from juxtaposition.

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