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Yes, it can be used, but the definite article (the) should be dropped in that case: Such mapping enabled the use of classical statistical mechanics' tools. Using the phrase classical statistical …

Possessives are determiners, you see. …

Things that are separate can be plural: They served (both) ranch and Italian dressings. Things that are together can be singular: It's made with (both) ranch and Italian dressing. Many situations can …

In Modern English, both constructions are frequently encountered, as pointed out in the other answers. There is, however, a decided preference for use of the Saxon genitive with human or animate poss …

The Modern English possessive suffix -'s is not a case any longer. Cases inflect nouns, but the -'s attaches to the end of noun phrases, rather than to their head nouns. Technically, an affix that a …

Yes. That's right. The possessive -'s suffix has gone from being a paradigmatic Genitive Case suffix that marks the possessor noun in Old English (or Modern German), to being a syntactic clitic marker …

My guess would be that the friend of mine/his/ours constructions are simply idioms. Pronouns are far more restricted in their occurrences than are nouns, and occur in far more idioms than any noun can …

Both is suppletive for the complex quantifier *all two, which doesn't occur in English. All three/four/seventeen/ten thousand of them have registered. *All two of them have registered = Both of them …

The first idiom, Y Do X From Y's Heart, is OK. The second one, Y Do X From Heart, is ungrammatical. It should be: Y Do X From The Heart, They didn't play the game from the heart. The definite a …

Like all punctuation questions, this one   a. has no clear answer, since "the vast individual differences in punctuation of English suggest       that writers use a multitude of contradictory rules …

You can put an apostrophe in it if you want, but I'd write a boys bicycle at least as often as any apostrophized phrase. Either placement of the apostrophe, as well as no apostrophe, would be consider …

That shell is not mine. Nor is it yours. It belongs to that snail over there. That shell is its, not mine or yours. As you can see, this construction doesn't occur often, because possession is …

You're tripping up on terminology, which is understandable since it's hard to find reliable information about English grammar, especially online. Everybody uses their own terms, with whatever meanings …

Series (like deer, salmon, and sheep) is pronounced and spelled the same in the plural as in the singular. If either the singular or the plural is used as a possessive, an apostrophe is added to show …