Poss: possessive
Possessive is a feature of prepositions and determiners in Irish. Possessive prepositions can inflect to show person and number. Possessive determiners cause morphological changes in the noun they are dependent on.
Yes : possessive
The following table describes the determiners and the morphological changes they cause.
| Determiner | Before consonant | Before vowel | Ex: cóta "coat" | Ex: athair "father" | |
| 1st sing | mo | lenition | no change | mo chóta | m' athair |
| 2nd sing | do | lenition | no change | do chóta | d' athair |
| 3rd sing masc | a | lenition | no change | a chóta | a athair |
| 3rd sing fem | a | no change | h-prefix | a cóta | a hathair |
| 1st pl | ár | eclipsis | eclipsis | ár gcóta | ár n-athair |
| 2nd pl | bhur | eclipsis | eclipsis | bhur gcóta | bhur n-athair |
| 3rd pl | a | eclipsis | eclipsis | a gcóta | a n-athair |
Certain prepositions (e.g. faoi “under”, i “in”, le “with”) in Irish can absorb the possessive determiners to become possessive prepositions. For instance, le + ár becomes lenár. The noun attached to the prepostion will inflect accordingly.
Examples:
- ina chorpán “in his body”
- ina cónaí “she lives in (lit. in her dwelling)”
- ina gcónaí “they live in (lit. in their dwelling)”
Treebank Statistics (UD_Irish)
This feature is universal.
It occurs with 1 different values: Yes.
254 tokens (2%) have a non-empty value of Poss.
22 types (1%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Poss.
13 lemmas (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Poss.
The feature is used with 2 part-of-speech tags: ga-pos/ADP (131; 1% instances), ga-pos/DET (123; 1% instances).
ADP
131 ga-pos/ADP tokens (6% of all ADP tokens) have a non-empty value of Poss.
The most frequent other feature values with which ADP and Poss co-occurred: Person=3 (120; 92%), PronType=EMPTY (104; 79%), Number=Sing (93; 71%), Gender=Masc (78; 60%).
ADP tokens may have the following values of Poss:
Yes(131; 100% of non-emptyPoss): ina, á, dá, lena, faoina, arna, dhá, dár, fána, imEMPTY(2109): ar, i, ag, le, de, sa, leis, mar, ann, den
Poss seems to be lexical feature of ADP. 100% lemmas (10) occur only with one value of Poss.
DET
123 ga-pos/DET tokens (10% of all DET tokens) have a non-empty value of Poss.
The most frequent other feature values with which DET and Poss co-occurred: Case=EMPTY (123; 100%), Definite=EMPTY (123; 100%), PronType=EMPTY (123; 100%), Number=Sing (89; 72%).
DET tokens may have the following values of Poss:
Yes(123; 100% of non-emptyPoss): a, mo, do, m’, árEMPTY(1153): an, na, seo, sin, aon, eile, gach, cibé, uile, s’
Poss in other languages: [am] [ar] [bg] [bxr] [ca] [ckb] [cop] [cs] [cu] [da] [de] [el] [en] [es] [et] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fo] [fr] [ga] [gl] [got] [grc] [he] [hi] [hr] [hu] [id] [it] [ja] [kk] [kmr] [ko] [la] [lv] [mr] [nl] [no] [pl] [pt] [ro] [ru] [sa] [sk] [sla] [sl] [so] [sr] [sv] [swl] [ta] [tr] [u] [ug] [uk] [ur] [urj] [vi] [yue] [zh]