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Linglib.Fragments.Greek.StandardModern.Possession

Standard Modern Greek possession profile #

@cite{stassen-2009} @cite{nichols-1986} @cite{heine-1997} @cite{holton-mackridge-philippaki-warburton-spyropoulos-2012} @cite{kampanarou-alexiadou-2026}

PossessionProfile bundle for Standard Modern Greek (SMG; ISO ell), per the project's per-language data flows through Fragments rule. Substrate types live in Linglib/Typology/Possession.lean. Cross-linguistic theorems consume this profile from Phenomena/Possession/Studies/NicholsBickel2013.lean.

Greek is the canonical case of a language that morphologically has a single adnominal possession class (no alienable/inalienable split is marked on the noun) yet structurally distinguishes the two via the position of the possessor (per @cite{kampanarou-alexiadou-2026} §7, citing @cite{alexiadou-2003}: inalienable possessors are introduced as complements of the possessee NP, alienable possessors in the specifier of a dedicated PossP). The structural distinction is not visible on PossessionProfile, which is a typological-surface bundle; it lives in Theories/Morphology/DM/NominalStructure.lean::PossessionType.

The apo-PP variant of the genitive (e.g., to vivlio apo ton ðimarxo 'the book of the mayor') is a partitive-coerced alternative to inflectional genitive (per @cite{kampanarou-alexiadou-2026} §5). Felicity is gated by the relation type (part-whole and source: free; ownership and kinship: degraded) and by whether the possessor can be construed as a set (modified or pluralised possessors are felicitous). The licensing apparatus lives in Phenomena/Possession/Studies/KampanarouAlexiadou2026.lean.

For the dialect contrast, see Fragments/Greek/Grevena/Possession.lean (genitive-loss endpoint per @cite{michelioudakis-chatzikyriakidis-spathas-2024}) and Fragments/Greek/Smyrna/Possession.lean (over-extended genitive per @cite{kampanarou-alexiadou-2026} fn 7, citing @cite{liosis-2016}).

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

Heine notions expressible by SMG inflectional genitive (broad coverage: ownership, kinship, body parts, part-whole, abstract).

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

    Heine notions naturally expressible by the SMG apo-PP variant. Restricted set per @cite{kampanarou-alexiadou-2026} (5)–(11): part-whole and source-like readings; ownership and kinship are degraded (the apo-PP coerces a partitive interpretation).

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

      Standard Modern Greek possession profile.

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