Concept: locpossessive construction

Definition

A locpossessive construction is a strategy for a °predpossessive clause in which there is a °locative flag on the possessor.

Comments

The abbreviated term was introduced by Creissels (2020), shortened from "locational possessive strategy" (see also Haspelmath 2025: 5).

Croft's comparative concept
locational possessive strategy (STR):

locational possessive strategy (a.k.a. goal strategy, location strategy) (STR) = a strategy for the presentational possession construction in which the possessum is expressed in a subject phrase and the possessor in an oblique phrase which is locative, or probably locative, in origin. Example: Russian u menja mašina [at me car] ‘I have a car’ is an instance of the locational possessive strategy. The locational possessive strategy essentially recruits a locative clause, in particular a presentational locative, to express possession. (Section 10.4.2)

Sources
Creissels 2020