0 If you are possessive about something that you own, you do not like lending it to other people or sharing it with other people. -- 不願與人分享的
1 In grammar, a possessive word, form, etc. shows who or what something belongs to. -- （文法）所有格的，物主的
"Mine" and "yours"are possessive pronouns. mine 和 yours 是所有代名詞。
The remaining episodes concerned subject omission (5.5%), locative constructions (4%), word order (4%), and possessives (2%).
In the case of ' picture '-type nouns, possessives are ambiguous : they can be interpreted as either arguments or possessors.
Three types of constructions are set apar t from the others - existentials, possessives, and clefts.
The existence of such ambiguous examples by no means invalidates the otherwise quite clear-cut and well-motivated distinction between the two kinds of possessives.
In addition, nominals take pronominal suffixes which are interpreted as possessives.
As one of the reviewers rightly points out, these last two forms, possessives and numerals, do not necessarily mark newness.
The possessive's definiteness/specificity is an inherent aspect of the construction as such.
There are attempts to relate the form of possessives to their function.
