English is liberal and ambiguous with possessives. “My hat” is fine, “my spouse” I guess works but I’d rather not, “my country” seems wrong to me. I have all the decision making authority for the hat, I have next to none about the country. Proposal: that there are different words denoting “ownership of” and “associated with.”
Alternatively you can think of the possessive as really being a “property of” indicator. The country with the property of having me in it; the person with the property of being married to me; the hat with the property of being owned by me. You can then have a special case for ownership in particular.
English is liberal and ambiguous with possessives. “My hat” is fine, “my spouse” I guess works but I’d rather not, “my country” seems wrong to me. I have all the decision making authority for the hat, I have next to none about the country. Proposal: that there are different words denoting “ownership of” and “associated with.”
Alternatively you can think of the possessive as really being a “property of” indicator. The country with the property of having me in it; the person with the property of being married to me; the hat with the property of being owned by me. You can then have a special case for ownership in particular.