
Predicative possession refers to indefinite, alienable possession. Sentences like <i>This bike is John’s</i> or <i>I have two eyes</i> are thus excluded.<br><br>

The language encodes this with an existential expression which takes the possessor as the object of an oblique locational preposition. Stassen (2008) provides an example from written Mongolian, where <i>na-dur morin bui</i> ‘1sg-at horse be.3sg.PRES’, literally ‘At me is a horse’ is the way to encode ‘I have a horse.’ The prepositional affix <i>-dur</i> is also used in the language to indicate location. 

<br><br><b>Reference</b><br>Stassen, Leon. 2008. Predicative Possession.
In Haspelmath et al. (2008), chapter 117. Available online at <a href=â€http://wals.info/feature/117â€> http://wals.info/feature/117</a href>. 	
