Prof.

Blokh: Case is an immanent morphological category of the noun manifested in

the forms of noun declension and showing the relations of the nounal referent to
other objects and phenomena. It is a morphological-declensional form. So, this is
the traditional grammar approach.
This category is expressed in English by the opposition of the form in -'s [z, s,
iz] usually called the possessive case, or more traditionally, the genitive case,
to the unmarked form of the noun, usually called the �common� case.
The apostrophy serves to distinguish in writing the singular noun in the genitive
case from the plural noun in the common case.
The genitive of the most of plural nouns remains phonetically unexpressed: the few
exceptions concern only some of the irregular plurals: e.g. the actresses' dresses,
the children's room.
according to the oppositional theory it's a pravate binary opposition where a gen
case is a marked member and common is unmarked.as for the meaning it's possible to
speak about possessivity (my son's toy, but not the man's enemy). possesivity is
meant in broad sense. we accept it for the lack of better definition. the meaning
of the unmarked member is non-possessivity in broad case.