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John his book vs. John's book : possession marking in English [PDF]
, 2013 The unusual development of the PDE [present-day English] s-genitive can be historically motivated, if the 's form is supposed to be not a mere leftover of the Old English (henceforth OE) casemarking, but the outcome of the merging of two patterns: the ...
Vezzosi, Letizia
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Genitives, relational nouns, and the argument-modifier distinction [PDF]
, 2013 The argument-modifier distinction is less clear in NPs than in VPs; nouns do not typically take arguments. The clearest cases of arguments in NPs are in certain kinds of nominalizations which retain some "verbal" properties (Grimshaw 1990). The status of
Partee, Barbara H., Borschev, Vladimir
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Genitive variation: the niche role of the oblique genitive
, 2014 This article discusses the niche role that the oblique genitive of the type the friend of John’s occupies in the context of genitive variation. The article shows that the oblique genitive should be considered an independent construction which competes ...
Payne, John, Berlage, Eva
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Rethinking case marking and case alternation in Estonian [PDF]
, 2013 In this paper, we argue for a view of case marking that does not treat case as the passive realisation of other morpho-syntactic properties of a construction but as independently bringing information to a clause.
Merilin Miljan +3 more
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The Nominative/Genitive Alternation and Subordination in the Japanese Language [PDF]
, 2015 The focus of this paper is the nominative/genitive case alternation phenomenon, often called ga/no conversion, which occurs in the Japanese language. In some kinds of subordinate clauses, the nominative case marker ga can be replaced with the genitive no
Hammar, Ida
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, 2013 This paper focuses on variation between pre- and postnominal genitives of proper names in German. It refines and completes previous studies, in that it provides a systematic corpus study of all factors described in the existing literature and offers a ...
Carlier, Anneeditor +2 more
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The function and rendering in Latvian of genitive constructions in the semantic structure of the Book of Lamentations of Gregor from Narek (in Armenian) [PDF]
, 2008 This report deals with the semantics of genitive constructions (adnominal genitive) in Matean Voghberguthean as well as with the searches for rendering equivalents in Latvian. It is based on the method of paraphrase with one or more transformations – the
Salmiņa, Valda
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Genitive coordinations with personal pronouns
, 2011 English genitive noun-phrase coordinations follow two patterns. The first is the single genitive, in which exponence of the genitive case occurs solely on the final coordinate, e.g.
Payne, John, JOHN PAYNE
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Subordination as distinct from embedding: evidence from english and arabic
, 1991 Subordination and embedding are two processes of forming non-simple sentences in different languages. But these two processes have been used interchangeably to describe structures which are not really of the same status.
Thalji,Abdel-Majid Ibrahim M.
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The times change: multivariate subordination, empirical facts [PDF]
The normality of multi-asset returns in event time is shown empirically. A multivariate subordination mechanism is proposed in order to explain this phenomenon.
Frédéric Abergel, Nicolas Huth
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