Genitive ’s and of possessive structures and their use constraints for Argentinian EFL learners: a reflective stance towards grammar errors

Abstract

Possession is a universal domain, since every human language makes use of conventionalized expressions for it. The case of attributive possession, mainly as regards the genitive case (’s) and the use of the preposition of, can cause some difficulties for EFL learners. The aim of this work is to provide a preliminary study of those structures in comparison to the Spanish N de N structure so as to shed light on some concepts related to L1 interference and error analysis. Some contributions related to the teaching of grammar contents are also included.