Editing Apposition (section)

==Appositive genitive==
In several languages, the same syntax that is used to express such relations as possession can also be used appositively:

* 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''. 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]]'', which is uncommon.
* In Classical Greek:
** "Genitive of explanation" as in {{langx|el|ὑὸς μέγα χρῆμα|hyòs méga chrêma}}, "a monster (great affair) of a boar" ([[Histories (Herodotus)|Histories of Herodotus]], 1.36), where ὑὸς, the word for ''boar'' is inflected for the genitive singular<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:
** Postpositive ''no'' as in: {{langx|ja|ふじの山|Fuji no Yama|[[Mount Fuji#Variations|the Mountain of Fuji]]}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/nounparticles|title=Noun-related Particles {{!}} Learn Japanese|website=www.guidetojapanese.org|access-date=2016-05-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=A dictionary of basic Japanese Grammar|publisher=The Japan Times|year=1986|isbn=4-7890-0454-6|pages=312}}</ref> and {{langx|ja|となりのトトロ|Tonari no Totoro|Neighbor Totoro}}, '[[My Neighbor Totoro]]'
* In Biblical Hebrew:
**[[Hebrew grammar#Noun construct|Construct]], "genitive of association" as in: {{langx|he|גַּן עֵדֶן|Gan 'Ēden}}, "the [[Garden of Eden]]"<ref>§9.5.3h (p. 153), [[Bruce K. Waltke]] and [[Michael Patrick O'Connor]], ''An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax'', Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1990. {{ISBN|0-931464-31-5}}</ref>