Re: Possessive and Genitive

Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:

> My point is that the term "genitive" refers strictly to a noun case, while
> the  term "possessive" refers to a syntactic function, which can be
> rendered through a genitive case in languages that have one, but also
> through plenty of other possible forms
No, actually, some English grammars actually call the "'s" clitic
the "possessive case".  These grammars simply do not use the term
genitive at all.  Again, case-names are just labels.

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