origin of genitive and possessive constructions

[James MacFarlane]

Have you checked Bernd Heine's book "Possession: Cognitive sources,
forces, and grammaticalization" 1997.

This book deals mainly with predicative possession, but I believe that
there is some discussion of the genitive in there as well.


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