
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 a conjunction, such as <i>and</i>, within an existential expression. According to Stassen (2008), this is often the case in languages where the conjuction ‘and’ is the same word as the preposition ‘with’ or additive marker ‘too’. An example provided by Stassen comes from Sango, where <i>lo eke <b>na</b> bongo</i> ‘3sg be <b>and/with</b> garment’ for ‘She has a garment’. This could be considered literally paraphraseable as something like ‘She and a garment exist’ or ‘She with a garment exists.’ 


<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>. 	

