[…] predications […] may be felt to be central in any structured language system: 'There is an X, X is at Y, Z has X, X is Z’s'. I shall refer to the relationships expressed by these predications as Existence, Location, Possession, and Ownership. I should emphasize that these labels are chosen only for convenience of reference and are not meant to have any particular semantic significance: “possession,” for instance, is grossly inadequate for the semantics of has, which might better, though still inadequately, be defined as “stands in a close and superordinate relationship to.”
- Bickerton (1981), a pag.244