Manual


As in CCGrebank, genitive attributes are analyzed as noun arguments of category PP. Consequently, a noun with a genitive attribute has category N/PP:

the
NP/N
destruction
N/PP
of
PP/NP
Carthage
N
NP
*
PP
> 0
N
> 0
NP
> 0
die
NP/N
Zerstörung
N/PP
Karthagos
PP
N
> 0
NP
> 0
die
NP/N
Zerstörung
N/PP
der
PP/N
Stadt
N
PP
> 0
N
> 0
NP
> 0

Nouns with a possessive determiner mirror those with a prepositional genitive attribute in having category N/PP. Correspondingly, possessive determiners have category NP/(N/PP):

my
NP/(N/PP)
friend
N/PP
NP
> 0
Mia
NP
's
(NP/(N/PP))\NP
NP/(N/PP)
< 0
friend
N/PP
NP
> 0

Noun modifiers still have category N/N or N\N and use composition to combine with the nouns:

my
NP/(N/PP)
good
N/N
friend
N/PP
N/PP
> 1
NP
> 0

Unlike in English, German and Dutch, in Italian, possessive determiners can also function as attributive adjectives, following a separate determiner. In this case, they have category N/(N/PP) rather than NP/(N/PP). For example:

il
NP/N
mio
N/(N/PP)
libro
N/PP
mio
NP/(N/PP)
fratello
N/PP