Possession and attributive modification: a conceptual and typological investigation

所有语言都有修饰名词（如形容词）和表示占有的方法（如用of的介词），但许多语言缺乏这些语法手段，而使用各种其他方法，常常模糊了这两类之间的区别。虽然语言学家研究了形容词结构和所有格结构，但对形容词结构和所有格结构之间的关系（非常棘手的）问题的研究很少。我们将回顾以往关于名词跨语言修饰方式的研究，并对该问题进行初步的概念分析。

All languages have ways to modify nouns (e.g. adjectives) and to express possession (e.g. by the preposition of), but many languages lack these grammatical devices and use a variety of other means, often blurring the distinction between the two categories. Although linguists have studied adjectival constructions and possessive constructions there has been very little research on the (very tricky) question of how adjectival and possessive constructions relate to each other. We will survey previous research on the ways nouns can be modified across languages and we will provide a preliminary conceptual analysis of the problem.