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Germanic genitives / edited by Tanja Ackermann, FU Berlin ; Horst J. Simon, FU Berlin ; Christian Zimmer, FU Berlin. — 1 online resource. — (Studies in language companion series). — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/1793256.pdf>.

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Subject: Germanic languages — Congresses. — Case; Germanic languages — Congresses. — Possessives; Grammar, Comparative and general — Congresses. — Morphosyntax; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / German

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Table of Contents

  • Germanic Genitives
  • Editorial page
  • Germanic Genitives
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • Genitives in Germanic
    • Contributions to this volume
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
  • A new perspective on the Luxembourgish genitive
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Characterizing the Luxembourgish language and data
    • 3. Preliminary remarks
    • 4. Genitive constructions in Luxembourgish
      • 4.1 Attributes
      • 4.2 Genitive complements of verbs and adjectives
      • 4.3 Prepositions
      • 4.4 Adverbials
      • 4.5 Family names
      • 4.6 Partitives
    • 5. Summary
    • Acknowledgements
    • Internet sources
    • Sources
    • References
  • Frisian genitives
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. The genitive in Old Frisian
    • 3. Possessive use of the former genitival endings
    • 4. The redistribution of the former strong and weak genitival endings
      • 4.1 Gametonyms in West Frisian
      • 4.2 Patronyms in Fering-Öömrang
    • 5. Reanalysis of prenominal genitives
      • 5.1 Genitive compounds in West Frisian
      • 5.2 Geographical adjectives and inhabitant names in North Frisian
      • 5.3 The genitive of family names in West Frisian
    • 6. Recycling of the former genitival endings
      • 6.1 The ending -s as a countability marker in Fering-Öömrang
      • 6.2 The ending -s in temporal adverbs in West Frisian
    • 7. Literary use of the genitive
    • 8. Conclusion
    • Sources
    • References
  • On the motivation of genitive‑s omission in Contemporary German
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Which words are affected by ‑s omission in Contemporary German?
    • 3. Why are only peripheral nouns affected by ‑s omission?
    • 4. The impact of ‑s on the recognition of peripheral nouns
    • 5. Morphological integration of loanwords
    • 6. Conclusion
    • Acknowledgements
    • Corpora
    • Sources
    • References
  • From genitive suffix to linking element
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Phenomenon and corpora
    • 3. Study 1: Nominal constructions in Early New High German – from genitive attribute to compound
    • 4. Study 2: Measuring productivity of compounding patterns
    • 5. Study 3: Persisting syntactic properties
    • 6. Summary and conclusion
    • Acknowledgements
    • Corpora
    • References
  • The development of non-paradigmatic linking elements in Faroese and the decline of the genitive case
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. The decline of the genitive case in Faroese
      • Anchor 58
      • 2.2 The functional decline of the synthetic genitive
    • 3. Linking elements in Faroese
      • 3.1 Formal dissociation from the inflectional endings
      • 3.2 The functional dissociation of linking elements: The development of new functions
      • 3.3 The development of syllabic conditioning of + ar + and + a + 
    • 4. Conclusion
    • References
  • The Genitive Rule and its background
    • 1. Genitive and visibility
    • 2. DP/NP-internal feature distribution in German
      • 2.1 Obscure case forms
      • 2.2 Main and secondary feature bearers
    • 3. The interaction of visibility and feature distribution
      • 3.1 Compulsory and optional substitutive constructions
      • 3.2 Overview of the following discussion
    • 4. The expected behavior
    • Unexpected behavior I
      • 5.1 Pronouns with genitive marker -es
      • 5.2 Recurring genitive phrases
    • 6. Unexpected behavior II
      • 6.1 Prestigious prepositions
      • 6.2 Proper nouns
      • 6.3 Derivations from geographical proper names with suffix -er
      • 6.4 Some other constructions
    • 7. The Genitive Rule and the tendency to redundancy-free inflection
      • 7.1 Loss of the genitive ending of nouns
      • 7.2 Determiners: Weak vs. strong endings
      • 7.3 The preference against case forms of nouns
    • 8. Conlusion
    • Acknowledgements
    • Sources
    • References
  • From genitive inflection to possessive marker?
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Morphology: The case declension of personal names
      • 2.1 Synchrony
      • 2.2 Diachrony
      • 2.3 Why are personal names prone to deflexion? – Animacy versus scheme constancy
    • 3. (Morpho-)Syntax: “Genitive” constructions with personal names
      • 3.1 Where does the -s occur?
        • 3.1.1 Grammars
      • 3.1.2 Corpus data (DECOW)
      • 3.2 Proposed formal analyses for German possessive -s
    • 4. The status of ‑s – genitive inflection or clitic marker?
      • 4.1 English possessive ’s constructions
      • 4.2 Synchronic and diachronic empirical data of German
    • 5. Conclusion
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
  • Yiddish possessives as a case for genitive case
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. The Yiddish case system
    • 3. The morphosyntactic status of the Yiddish possessive marker
      • 3.1 Prenominal possessor constructions in Fribourg German
      • 3.2 The properties of Yiddish prenominal possessors
      • 3.2.1 Selectional restrictions
      • 3.2.2 Morphological marking
      • 3.2.3 Type of placement
      • 3.3 Summary and analysis
    • 4. Some remarks on the diachrony of Yiddish possessive marking
      • 4.1 Prenominal possessors in the Tsenerene
      • 4.2 A diachronic scenario
      • 4.3 Summary
    • 5. Conclusion
    • Acknowledgements
    • Primary sources
    • References
  • Genitives and proper name compounds in German
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Genitives and compounds: Morphological and syntactic properties
      • 2.1 Genitives
      • 2.2 Compounds
    • 3. Genitives and compounds: Semantic properties
    • 4. Semantic overlap between proper name compounds and genitives
    • 5. Restrictions on proper name compounding
    • 6. Conclusion
    • References
  • On the role of cases and possession in Germanic
    • 1. Introduction – road map
    • 2. Structural vs. non-structural cases
    • 3. On the history and hierarchy of cases
      • 3.1 On the nature of cases in Germanic
      • 3.2 Polyfunctionality
    • 4. Inflectional morphology and semantic markedness
      • 4.1 Inflectional marking
      • 4.2 Reflexivity in pronominal systems
    • 5. Morphological transparency, emphasis and periphrastic constructions
      • 5.1 Morphological marking
      • 5.2 The emergence of a new morphological marker in Faroese
      • 5.3 More transparency through prepositional phrases
    • 6. Genitival and periphrastic constructions, seen from a typological perspective
      • 6.1 Typological differences between West and North Germanic
      • 6.2 Restrictions within genitive NPs
    • 7. Branching and weight in genitival noun phrases
      • 7.1 Left branching and group genitives
      • 7.2 Right branching and possession
    • 8. Conclusions
      • 8.1 On the helix in language history („Vom Spirallauf der Sprachgeschichte“)
      • 8.2 Overlapping grammatical functions and their consequences
      • 8.2.1 Grammatical overspecification and linguistic complexity
      • 8.2.2 Grammatical underspecification
      • 8.3 Progress in language evolution?
    • Acknowledgements
    • Primary sources
    • References
  • Index

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