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Central semantic of value possessive pronoun

Morphological criterion

  1. A pronoun has the type possessive if it has the feature number of possessor. This feature doesn't apply to the other types of pronouns. Possessive pronouns denote the relation between an object to that they point and that is present in the linguistic or extra-linguistic context, and its possessor. Possessive pronouns are compound forms. Their first component is the definite article and their second component the indefinite adjective.

Test

Given X a pronoun, If X has Pos=sg or Pos=pl, and pers=1 or pers=2 or pers=3, X is a possessive pronoun.