Germanic genitives / edited by Tanja Ackermann, FU Berlin ; Horst J. Simon, FU Berlin ; Christian Zimmer, FU Berlin.
| Other author | Ackermann, Tanja. |
| Other author | Simon, Horst J. |
| Other author | Zimmer, Christian, 1987- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; volume 193 |
| Contents | 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 Döhmer -- 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 Schlücker -- On the role of cases and possession in Germanic: A typological approach / Kurt Braunmüller. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Germanic genitives Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018 9789027200235 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017059315 |
| ISBN | 9789027264473 (pdf) |