Feature: Order of genitive and noun

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Description

(By Matthew S. Dryer): "This map shows the order of a genitive or possessor noun phrase with respect to the head noun... The genitive noun phrase is often called the possessor (phrase) and the head noun is sometimes called the possessee (noun), and the construction itself is known either as a genitive construction or as a possessive construction. It should be stressed that the term possession is used in this context in a broader sense than the term is used in everyday English. Two basic semantic types of genitive relations involve body parts and kinship relations, as illustrated by the French examples in (3)..."