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 InfoAmsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018.
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SeriesStudies 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.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Germanic genitives Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018 9789027200235
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