Evaluation: confirmed for 84 out of 91 cases of Locative Possessives.Problem: Russian, Celtic (both Indo-European), Arabic, Hebrew (both Semitic, Afro-Asiatic) have Locative Possessives, but not synchronic possibilities of absolute deranking.Possibility: the Locative Possessive is more conservative than its model. Languages may lose their Deranking strategy while hanging on to their Locative Possessives.
The LOCATIVE POSSESSIVE. Features:(a) the main verb is the locative/existential item “to be ” (which, in a limited number of cases may be zero);(b) the possessed item (PD) is the subject;(c) the NP which indicates the possessor (PR) is in a locational case (Locative, Dative, Adessive, etc.).
The LOCATIVE POSSESSIVE. Features:(a) the main verb is the locative/existential item “to be ” (which, in a limited number of cases may be zero);(b) the possessed item (PD) is the subject;(c) the NP which indicates the possessor (PR) is in a locational case (Locative, Dative, Adessive, etc.).