Germanic genitives /
The papers in this volume focus on the dynamics of one specific cell in morphological paradigms - the genitive. The high amount of diachronic and synchronic variation in all Germanic languages makes the genitive a particularly interesting phenomenon since it allows us, for example, to examine compar...
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2018.
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| Series: | Studies in language companion series ;
Volume 193. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introductory overview
- Genitives in Germanic / Christian Zimmer, Horst J. Simon & Tanja Ackermann
- Portraits of lesser studied languages. A new perspective on the Luxembourgish genitive / Caroline Döhmer
- Frisian genitives: From Old Frisian to the modern dialects / Jarich Hoekstra
- Genitive markers and their destinies. On the motivation of genitive-s omission in Contemporary German / Christian Zimmer
- From genitive suffix to linking element: A corpus study on the genesis and productivity of a new compounding pattern in (Early) New High German / Kristin Kopf
- The development of non-paradigmatic linking elements in Faroese and the decline of the genitive case / Hjalmar P. Petersen & Renata Szczepaniak
- "Genitives" in nominal configurations. The Genitive Rule and its background / Peter Gallmann
- From genitive inflection to possessive marker? The development of German possessive -s with personal names / Tanja Ackermann
- Yiddish possessives as a case for genitive case / Kerstin Hoge
- Genitives and their functional competitors. Genitives and proper name compounds in German / Barbara Schlücker
- On the role of cases and possession in Germanic: A typological approach / Kurt Braunmüller.