Re: Types of possession

As an offtopic sidenote about Ithkuil, even though no one speaks it in
"real-time", can anyone get the gist of it at a slower pace?  Or do
you even have to look in a dictionary/at the grammar to figure out
what each component meaning is?

On 12/18/05, John Quijada <jq_ithkuil@...> wrote:
> I guess I'm too late to add to the fray, but for what it's worth, Ithkuil
> distinguishes all of the following "possessives":
>
> the man's chair = the chair belonging to him [alienable but conventionally
> recognized/sanctioned possession]
> the man's chair = the one he's currently sitting in [circumstantial]
> the man's house = the house he legally owns [proprietary responsibility]
> the man's arm = part of his body [inalienable component/part-whole relationship]
> the man's brother = the brother related to him [genetic relationship]
> the man's happiness = he feels happy [affective experience]
> the man's rescue = he is the one rescued [target of others' purpose]
> the man's rescue = he's the one performing the rescue [act one performs]
> the man's gift = the gift is for him [benefaction]
> the man's gift = the gift is from him [source]
> the man's world = the world in which he lives [inherent subjective association]
> the man's team = the team he is associated with [interactive mutual association]
> the man's team = the team he manages/coaches [oversight, responsibility]
> the man's story = the story about him [topical reference]
> the man's story = the one he wrote[creation/authorship]
> the man's story = the one he told/related [could be authored by another]
> the man's command = his being a commander [role or function]
>
> --John Quijada
>