The Slavic be (existential/copula) and have (possessive) constructions fall mostly within the familiar expectations of the Standard Average European (SAE) Sprachbund, where we find explicit verbal expressions for be (an overt copula) and have (a transitive verb for predicative possession), with the notable exception of various phenomena in East Slavic and especially in Russian, where we find a zero copula (Ø) and the expression of have in Ru u X-gen (estˈ) Y-nom [at X (there is) Y] ‘X has Y’ construction. (See Haspel…