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Semantic Network of Adposition and Case Supersenses: Annotation Guidelines
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my painter 'S career #93

Open esmanning opened 4 years ago

esmanning commented 4 years ago

The grown-ups discouraged me in my painter 'S career when I was six years old Little Prince chapter 2 sent_id = lpp_1943.54

\~ career as a painter. Identity\~Gestalt??

nschneid commented 4 years ago

This is not the normal use of the possessive clitic because the head noun ("career") is also modified by a possessive pronoun!

I guess it is a construction similar to "my painter's smock" or "my children's book": 's modifies a noun which describes a kind, not a definite referent. There we say Beneficiary I think: a book for children. But with "career", we say "career as a painter", not "career for a painter". Hmm...