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Line 57: ==Appositive genitive== In several languages, the same syntax that is used to express such relations as possession can also be used appositively~~. Examples include~~: * In English: "Appositive oblique", a prepositional phrase with ''of'' as in: ''the month of December'', ''the sin of pride'', or ''the city of New York''. ~~This~~That has also been invoked as an explanation for the [[English possessive#Double genitive\|double genitive]]: ''a friend of mine''.<ref>Chapter 5, §14.3 (pages 447–448), Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum, ''The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. {{ISBN\|0-521-43146-8}}</ref> The ending ''-'s'' as in ''[[In Dublin's Fair City]]''. ~~This~~That is uncommon. * In ~~classical~~Classical Greek: ** "Genitive of explanation" as in {{lang-gr\|italic=yes\|ὑὸς μέγα χρῆμα\|hyòs méga chrêma}}, "a monster (great affair) of a boar" ([[Histories (Herodotus)\|Histories of Herodotus]], 1.36);<ref>§1322 (pages 317–318), [[Herbert Weir Smyth]], revised by Gordon M. Messing, ''Greek Grammar'', Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1956 [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0007&query=head%3D%23366 Perseus Digital Library]</ref> * In Japanese:

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