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genital (jen-i-t'l) adj. relating to the reproductive organs or to reproduction.
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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
; ...association between s-genitive and personal nouns...inanimate nouns. S-genitives are generally less...proportional use of s-genitives vs. of-phrases...each row. % s-genitive % of-phrase 1...subjects and s-genitives, and inanimate...3. The post-genitive The s-genitive...
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A Note on the history of genitive marking in Austronesian languages.(Squib)
Magazine article from: Oceanic Linguistics; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Three forms of the genitive phrase marker have been proposed for Proto...problematic. It is argued that *nu marked the genitive of common nouns, while *ni and *na marked the genitive of singular and plural personal nouns respectively...
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Beware the double genitive!
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/12/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...to comment on the double genitive. The double what? The double genitive (or double possessive...help. The entry on double genitives in Garner's American Usage...hell away from the double genitive. When we speak of "a friend...
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Genitive subjects and objects in the speech of Finland Russian *.
Magazine article from: Journal of Slavic Linguistics; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; Abstract: The paper considers genitive marking in subjects and objects in Finland...of the Finnish partitive and Russian genitive in subjects and objects. At the end...diachronic and dialectal use of the Russian genitive and show its relevance for Finland Russian...
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3. Genitive of negation.("Expletive Negation" in Russian: A Conspiracy Theory *)
Magazine article from: Journal of Slavic Linguistics; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...internal arguments can ever appear in the genitive of negation (4). Only one instance...interactions. There is the accusative-genitive alternation as in example (1a) and the nominative-genitive alternation observed with unaccusatives...
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Untitled novel would like to meet catchy genitive title In the case of `Nathaniel's Nutmeg' I never did get to find out who Nat haniel was
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/4/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...modern trends with unerring accuracy - the Genitive Title Trend and the Important Trivia Trend...the Important Trivia Trend there is the Genitive Title Trend. I hope you all remember what the genitive case is. That's right - it's the case...
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The later development of an early-emerging system: the curious case of the Polish genitive *.(Report)
Magazine article from: Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences; 5/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...experiment testing their productivity with the two genitive masculine endings, -a and -u, and their...subsystem which will be investigated is the Polish genitive inflection, and in particular, genitive marking on inanimate masculine nouns. This...
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Are you a friend of the double genitive's?
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 3/28/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...better to write of 'a friend of Martha' or simply 'Martha's friend'?" Hi ho, we are back to the handling of double genitives, an issue that has puzzled editors and grammarians for the past hundred years. By way of example, the Washington Post reported...
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The "Works of the Law" in Romans and Galatians: A New Defense of the Subjective Genitive
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; The emphasis in this turn of phrase would then lie not so much on human failure fully to obey the Law (though that is implied) as on the Law's own inability (owing to the gripping power of sin) to produce in people a righteousness that can survive before the bar of God's judgment. The issue is
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"Even the demons believe": Paul and pistis christoy
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...on Paul's theology, the subjective genitive interpretation of Paul's ... phrases...or all of the others. The subjective genitive reading of ... has proved particularly...remarkable is the momentum the subjective genitive reading, "the faith(fulness) of...
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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...phrase is sometimes called the of -genitive: the top of the hill . The Saxon genitive...
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genitive
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
genitive [Lat.,=genetic], in Latin grammar, the case typically used...but the phenomenon referred to may not closely resemble a Latin genitive; thus a Latin genitive will be translated by a number of different cases in Finnish...
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GENITIVE CASE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
GENITIVE CASE. A term in GRAMMAR marking possession...dies irae days of wrath, irae is the genitive of ira wrath, anger. The term has been...not so common as possessive . See DOUBLE GENITIVE , GROUP POSSESSIVE, SAXON GENITIVE .
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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...
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CASE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, dative, and ablative, each with singular...adjectives: nominative , accusative , genitive , dative , and to a limited extent instrumental...accusative (plural), stānes genitive singular (of a stone), stā...
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