phrases can also serve as definitions: No one – not a single person – should ever suffer that way. – Emphatic semantic duplication. 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 double genitive: a friend of mine. The ending -'s as in In Dublin's Fair City, which is uncommon. In Classical Greek: "Genitive of explanation" as in , "a monster (great affair) of a boar" (Histories of Herodotus, 1.36), where ὑὸς, the word for boar is inflected for the genitive singular In Japanese: Postpositive no as in: In Biblical Hebrew: Construct, "genitive of association" as in: , "the Garden of Eden" See also Figure of speech Hyperbaton Literary device Parenthesis Notes References A comprehensive treatment of apposition in English is given in §§17.65–93 (pages 1300–1320) and elsewhere in: On the apposition vs. double subject issue in Romanian, see: Appositions Versus Double Subject Sentences – What Information the Speech Analysis Brings to a Grammar Debate, by Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu and Diana Trandabăţ. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin, Heidelberg, ISSN 0302-9743, Volume 4629/2007, "Text, Speech and Dialogue", pp. 286–293. External links Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar, §282 Audio illustrations at AmericanRhetoric.com Appositives at chompchomp.com Apposition and double subject in Romanian – a controversial issue in * Sounds of the Romanian Language Purdue OWL: Appositives Appositions Versus Double Subject Sentences – What Information the Speech Analysis Brings to a Grammar Debate Rhetoric Grammar pt:Termos acessórios da oração#Aposto