Genitivemodifying
Genitivemodifying is a term used in linguistics to describe the use of the genitive case to modify a noun within a noun phrase. In languages with an explicit genitive form, a dependent noun or noun phrase in the genitive marks a possessor or a related relation to the head noun. The function of a genitive modifier can express possession, association, origin, part–whole, measure, or description, often aligning with what English speakers realize as possessive or of-phrases.
In English, genitive modifiers appear in two main ways. The possessive (genitive) construction attaches a special
German and several other languages realize genitive modification through explicit genitive case marking on the dependent
The genitive modifier is usually analyzed as a noun phrase that functions adjectivally, restricting or specifying