possessive

1) a possessive pronoun used to introduce the names of certain people holding a position in government, as for example a foreign head of state: “Her Excellency Elin R. Mbaquu;” an abstraction is always associated with the p., which are both introduced in PS-RULE [PS10] as part of a honorific title phrase, e.g., “His Royal Highness King George the second, King of Great Britain”; 2) a p. may be a suffix indicating a patronymic; this p. is introduced in PS-RULE [PS7]; 3) a possessive noun used in naming some localities; this p. is introduced in rule PS-RULE LP6 as part of the adjective phrase, e.g., “Prince Rupert’s Land”; this p. is usually formed from the given name or surname of a notable person; 4) a marker consisting of the apostrophe+s on the kinship term indicating relationship as in “father’s brother’s wife”; this p. is introduced in PS-RULE KP1