Features of Expressing the Category of Possessiveness in Russian and Chinese Languages
The article explores the category of possessiveness as one of the most contentious issues in Russian and Chinese languages. The author emphasizes the connection of this category with human consciousness and culture, reviews the similarities and differences of expressing the category of possessiveness in both languages, provides various viewpoints of researchers on the understanding of this category content, the allocation of types of constructions expressing possessive relations. Attention is drawn to the wide area of possessive relationship and belonging. The author concludes that there exists a wide variety and complexity of Russian possessive constructions and stresses the role of context in their analysis.