Coordinate possessives

LANGUAGE LOG–Comments on Mark Liberman’s Left Dislocation posting drifted for a while into the vexed question of how to express possession when two (or more, though I’ll restrict myself to two here) conjoined possessor NPs are involved. For the coordination of a 1sg (pronominal) possessor NP with a 3sg non-pronominal possessor NP, commenters came up with five possibilities full story

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