THE EXPRESSION OF THE CONCEPT OF POSSESSION IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY MEANS OF THE ABSOLUTE FORM OF THE GENITIVE CASE AND ITS EQUIVALENTS IN THE AZERBAIJANI LANGUAGE

Abstract

The Azerbaijani and English languages, drawn to the study, belong to different language families from the point of view of morphological and genealogical structure. Therefore, the expression of the concept of possession reveals some similar and distinctive features between these languages. Posses-sion is expressed by special means in every language. The essence of the concept of possession can be more clearly seen in the field of the case system, which is mainly embodied in the genitive case. Some fea-tures that are common to all languages are considered to be universal, for instance, personal pronouns (possessive constructions) and possessive case endings. This article deals with the absolute form of the genitive case, one of the means of expressing the concept of possession in the English language, and its equivalents in the Azerbaijani language. The scientific novelty of the article is that although the absolute form of the genitive case has been studied in the English language to a certain extent, the equivalents of this form in the Azerbaijani language have not become the objects of typological research so far; similar and distinctive features inherent in these equivalents have not been compared. From this point of view, this article has an important significance and can be considered one of the first steps in the field of comparative study of the Azerbaijani and English languages.

Keywords

• концепт принадлежности
• абсолютный родительный падеж
• маркирован-ный падеж
• посессум
• посессор