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The Origins of the ‘Group Genitive’ in English

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, 1997
The ‘group genitive’ occurring expressions such as the king of England’s daughter is first found in English texts of the late fourteenth century. In this paper, the relationship between the syncretism of cases and the appearance of this new genitive is investigated, as well as the relationship between the new construction and ‘separated genitives’ such
Cynthia Allen
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