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Linglib.Fragments.Greek.Grevena.Possession

Grevena Greek possession profile #

[Sta09b] [Nic86] [Hei97] [MCS24] [KA26]

Per-language possession data for Grevena Greek (GG; Northern Greek dialect; Indo-European; ISO ell, shared macro-language code with SMG), as bare field-by-field defs — the genitive-loss endpoint within the Modern Greek dialect continuum.

Examples: tu vivliu ap tun ðimarxu 'the book of the mayor' (apo-PP, no GEN on noun), i piriγrafi ap tun ðimarxu ap ta piðja (iterated apo-PPs, impossible in SMG), tu spiti m 'my house' (cliticised pronoun retains GEN). Inflectional genitive lost on common nouns; apo-PPs cover all genitive functions and can stack, front, and sub-extract (cf. Romance de/di).

What makes GG different from SMG #

In GG, inflectional genitive has been entirely lost on common nouns ([MCS24]); its functions are served by apo-PPs across the board. GG apo-PPs differ from SMG apo-PPs (per [KA26] §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.

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def Greek.Grevena.Possession.apoNotions :
List Possession.Notion

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 [MCS24] (19), discussed by [KA26] §4 ex. 16a).

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    def Greek.Grevena.Possession.genNotions :
    List Possession.Notion

    Heine notions still expressible by GG inflectional genitive — only on pronominal clitics and proper names (and some kinship terms in some sub-varieties), per [MCS24] discussed in [KA26] §4. The empty common-noun coverage is the dialect's defining feature.

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      def Greek.Grevena.Possession.obligatoryPossession :
      Possession.Obligatoriness
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        def Greek.Grevena.Possession.possessiveClassification :
        Possession.Classification
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          def Greek.Grevena.Possession.predicativeStrategy :
          Possession.PredicativeStrategy
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            def Greek.Grevena.Possession.adnominalStrategy :
            Possession.AdnominalMarking

            .zeroMarking 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 [MCS24]) is reduced relative clause adjunction, which the substrate doesn't distinguish from juxtaposition (a structure SMG apo-PPs do NOT support, see [KA26] §4).

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              def Greek.Grevena.Possession.affixPosition :
              Option Possession.AffixPosition
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