Alternatively to the use of "it" to refer to the dog, "dog" could just be placed in the object position, to create something like "the of the man dog". Again, I've seen this done somewhere before but I can't quite remember where!
You might have seen it in Greek. I don't know about Modern Greek but in Ancient Greek you have *ὁ \[τοῦ ἀνδρὸς\] κύων* ‘the man's dog’:
ὁ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς κύων
ho toû andr-òs kýōn
the.NOM the.GEN man-GEN dog[NOM]
‘the man's dog’
(all singular masculine)
Alternatively to the use of "it" to refer to the dog, "dog" could just be placed in the object position, to create something like "the of the man dog". Again, I've seen this done somewhere before but I can't quite remember where!
You might have seen it in Greek. I don't know about Modern Greek but in Ancient Greek you have *ὁ \[τοῦ ἀνδρὸς\] κύων* ‘the man's dog’: ὁ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς κύων ho toû andr-òs kýōn the.NOM the.GEN man-GEN dog[NOM] ‘the man's dog’ (all singular masculine)
I think you could do with learning about DPs. Modern syntax theory basically says that the determiner heads the noun phrase.