As in CCGrebank, genitive attributes are analyzed as noun arguments of
category PP
. Consequently, a noun with a genitive attribute has
category N/PP
:
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)
:
Noun modifiers still have category N/N
or N\N
and
use composition to combine with the nouns:
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: