なんか某作業の合間に研究って感じになってるけど，昨日に続いて"Possessives in English: An Exploration in Cognitive Grammar"(Taylor, J. R. Oxford University Press, 2001)を読んでいたら’sを

  • genitive of possesion: my broher’s books, the earth’s crust
  • genitive of origin: the pheassant’s nest, nature’s work
  • the subjective genitive: Elizabeth’s reign, the horse’s breathing
  • the objective genetive: Gordon’s murder, their kingdom’s loss
  • the genitive of measure: an hour’s interval, a shilling’s worth
  • the genetive of apposition: Tweed’s fair river, treason’s charge
というように分類をしているらしい．この例を見ると"A’s B"も日本語の「AのB」と同じように，語彙の意味1に依存してるっぽい…

  1. とsituation ↩︎