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The Importance of Possession in English
The possessive... The possession is merged with a classifier system. If you actually Google Austronesian possession, you will find papers on this subject. So for some reason the possessives are on the pronoun page at the bottom. There's one possessive prefix which is used to mark something that you created yourself. A tree leaves, a car's paint job and mirrors reflection, that sort of stuff. And then we have this O which indicates that the possession where the possessed is an integral part of the possessor.