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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480897303321

Titolo

Germanic genitives / / edited by Tanja Ackermann, FU Berlin ; Horst J. Simon, FU Berlin ; Christian Zimmer, FU Berlin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2018]

©2018

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 pages)

Collana

Studies in language companion series ; ; Volume 193

Disciplina

430/.045

Soggetti

Germanic languages - Case

Germanic languages - Possessives

Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphosyntax

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Dohmer -- 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 Schlucker -- On the role of cases and possession in Germanic: A typological approach / Kurt Braunm©oller.