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	A friend of my mother('s): on the use of genitive vs. common case in postmodifying of-phrases. Magazine article from: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...Aim It is well-known that the so-called double genitive, or the post-genitive, occurs where the noun phrase following the preposition...noun phrase are found as alternatives to the post-genitive in similar contexts. Compare: (1) (1) Ultimately... Read more
	Nach Olympia: Hoderlin und die Erfindung der Antike.(Book Review) Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...euro]. ISBN 3-930916-51-7 (pbk). As the author warns us in his introduction, the title contains a double ambiguity, First, the genitive 'der Antike' is both subjective and objective, '[d]enn die als Errungenschaften oder Erfindungen der Antike in die Gegenwart... Read more
	Compounds and syntactic phrases in modern Irish. Magazine article from: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...noun followed by another noun in the genitive, e.g., mac Sheain son John-Gen. -- John...footnote) phrases consisting of Noun+Genitive, which, he says, function as semantic...taking two phrases consisting of Noun+Genitive from Irish and performing some elementary... Read more
	Apostrophe, where art thou? Today's churches are missing the mark.(VIEWPOINT) Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 4/15/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...1752 who first called what had been the genitive case the possessive. That may have contributed...estimate that only 40 percent of the genitives are strictly possessive. The others are split among what are called subjective genitive ( the pastor's request ), descriptive... Read more
	Studies on grammaticalization.(Brief article)(Book review) Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2009; 188 words ; ...evolutionary perspective, grammaticalization of Korean numeral classifiers, the grammaticalization of the German preposition von as a genitive equivalent, the grammaticalization of agreement in Chibchan, a grammaticalization perspective on decay and loss of applicatives... Read more
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	The Russian Language in the Twentieth Century.(Review) Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...changes in usage in case endings, as in the genitive singular (caxapa/caxapy), prepositional...indeclinable nouns, zero endings in the genitive plural of masculine nouns ([TEXT NOT...postSoviet period, such as further loss of the genitive of negation and the partitive genitive... Read more
	Strabo 10.2.4 and the synoecism of "Newer" Pleuron. Magazine article from: Hesperia; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Pleuron originates from a loose translation of the participial phrase in the genitive absolute, [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.]. The sack described in the genitive absolute has then been interpreted as the cause for the action of the main verb... Read more
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	genitive Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology genitive XIV. — (O)F. génitif , -ive , or L. genitīvus , -īva (gene- ), f. genit- , pp. stem of gignere beget, produce; see KIN , -IVE . Read more
	SAXON GENITIVE Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language SAXON GENITIVE. A term for the forms of the possessive...from Old English or Anglo-Saxon. This genitive is often described as a case form, but...of -phrase is sometimes called the of -genitive: the top of the hill . The Saxon genitive... Read more
	DOUBLE GENITIVE Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language DOUBLE GENITIVE. A term taken from the GRAMMAR of LATIN and used in connection with a noun that is doubly possessed, using both of and either a... Read more
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