一、为什么叫“属格”,而不叫“所有格”?名词的“属格”(GENITIVE CASE),又叫“所有格”(POSSESSIVECASE),前者是按结构形式命名,而后者则是按意义命名。我们知道,名词属格(GENITIVE NOUN)是英语名词的一种屈折形式,它以在名词词尾加-’s 或-’的方式来表示该名词与随后的另一名词之间的语义关系。这些语义关系包括“所有关系”、“施事关系”、“受事关系”、“来源关系”、“类别关系”、“度量关系”等。 I. Why is it called “generality” and not “passiveness?” The noun “GENITIVE CASE” is also called “POSSESSIVECASE”. The former is named after the structure, while the latter is Named meaning. We know that GENITIVE NOUN is a kind of inflectional form of English noun. It expresses the semantic relationship between the noun and the following other noun by adding -s or - in the suffix of the noun. These semantic relations include “all relations”, “affair relations”, “affective relations”, “source relationships”, “category relations”, “metric relations”, and the like.