possessorpersoon
Possessorpersoon is a linguistic term used to describe how a language marks the person of the possessor in a possession construction. The concept focuses on who the possessor is—first, second, or third person—and where that information appears in a noun phrase or clause. In some analyses, possessorpersoon is encoded through possessive determiners or pronouns; in others, it is realized by affixes on the possessed noun or by agreement on verbs or adjectives.
Languages vary in how they express possessorpersoon. In languages with possessive adjectives, the determiner itself carries
Cross-linguistic patterns include differences in the granularity of marking (1st, 2nd, 3rd person; sometimes inclusive vs.
See also: possessive agreement, genitive marking, determiner-noun concord, possessive clitics.