Dimensions of interpretation of inflectional categories

Inflectional categories, like other units of language, have semantic and phonetic interpretations. The main property of inflectional categories is to define and to mark relations. In this respect, Genitive is a basic category, expressing a variety of relations:

Genitive:

• Category = GEN(X,Y), where X is JACK, ... , Y is CAR, ...
• , where is Subject-of, Object-of, Possessor-of, ...
• , where is concatenation, mutation, suppletion, ...
• , where is concatenation, mutation, suppletion, ...