Tags · Structure Case marking An affix or clitic on a noun phrase signalling its relation to a head or a clause. Topics with this tag Pattern Where does “the man’s head” carry its mark? Two nouns get tied together in five ways: a genitive on the possessor (Latin, Russian, English ’s), a person affix on the possessed noun (Hungarian, Ainu, Navajo), both at once (Turkish, Quechua), a free particle between the two (Japanese の, Mandarin 的, Romance de), or nothing beyond word order (Welsh, Indonesian). PossessionAdpositionCase marking Possessive marking → More in this facet Word order 2Adposition 2Syncretism 3Colexification 3Expletive subject 1Suppletion 2Negative concord 2Oblique marking 3Topic marking 1Multiverb construction 2Valency change 1Auxiliary verb 1
