Concept: transpossessive clause

Definition

[[A transpossessive clause is a °clause that uses a °transitive strategy for a °predpossessive clause.]]

Comments

An example is "They have money" (see Creissels (2020) and Haspelmath (2025: 5)).

Croft's comparative concept
have-possessive strategy (STR):

have-possessive strategy (a.k.a. action strategy) (STR) = a strategy for the presentational possession construction in which the possessor is expressed in a subject phrase, and the possessum in an object phrase. Example: English Kerry has a laptop is an instance of the have-possessive strategy. (Section 10.4.2)

Sources
Haspelmath 2025; Creissels 2020