摘要：Possession in language is such an elusive and vague notion that some linguists even think that scholars researching possession should “go beyond language” and look into how such concepts as theft,inheritance,donation or acquisition affect the way possession is encoded in language (Heine 2001). A philosopher and psychoanalyst E. Fromm (1976) speaks about two modes of existence: that of being and that of having and argues that the distinction between the two modes is so crucial that it influences and determines our views and actions. He also writes about the orientation of modern societies towards the having mode,the essence of which is our inclination towards possessing,owning,consuming,making everything and everybody our property. He uses linguistic evidence to support his claims and notes the growing use of nouns and the decreasing use of verbs in Western languages. An attempt will be made in this paper to revisit a definition of the concept of possession based on the analysis of the construction with the verb to have plus a verbal noun,i.e. constructions such as to have a drink,a smoke, a walk etc.,which according to Fromm,is an erroneous use,because processes and activities cannot be possessed,they can only be experienced. The possessive character of the construction will be discussed,the difference between the construction to have a drink,a smoke,a walk etc. and the corresponding verb to drink,to smoke,to walk,etc. will be addressed in the paper. The question of whether such linguistic expressions can tell us anything about some extralinguistic (e.g. psychological,philosophical) aspects of possession will be considered. The data for this research comes from the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Corpus of the Contemporary Lithuanian Language,compiled at the Centre of Computational Linguistics of the University of Vytautas Magnus in Kaunas.
其他摘要：Posesyvumas yra universali kategorija,kurią tiria įvairių sričių specialistai: teisininkai,filosofai, psichologai,kalbininkai ir pan. Kalboje posesyvumą kaip kategoriją apibrėžti sudėtinga. Kai kurie tyrėjai kalba apie tai,kad posesyvumas yra tokia plati
