Thread:User talk:Rua/West Frisian pronoun definitions/reply (5)

You're right in saying that a possessive is a type or subset of the genitive case, but it's far less specific to call something genitive as opposed to possessive. For example, here is a list of Latin uses of the genitive case. While possession is definitely one of the uses, there's a whole laundry list of uses that don't indicate possession at all. So while I get where you're coming from and I think you're partially right, I also think it's misleading in respect to meaning to label something like mines, which is far more restricted in meaning than the whole range of meaning involved in the genitive case, as genitive.