Genitive Variation in English : : Conceptual Factors in Synchronic and Diachronic Studies / / Anette Rosenbach.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]
©2002
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Reprint 2012
Language:English
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 42
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Physical Description:1 online resource (361 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of contents
  • List of abbreviations
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2 The structure of the s-genitive and the of-genitive: some theoretical preliminaries
  • Chapter 3 Grammatical variation
  • Chapter 4 Factors: Animacy, topicality, and possessive relation
  • Chapter 5 “Variation” versus “choice”
  • Chapter 6 Modern English data: experimental study
  • Chapter 7 Historical development of the genitive variation
  • Chapter 8 A diachronic scenario: the extension of the sgenitive from late Middle to Modern English - economically-driven language change?
  • Chapter 9 Summary and conclusion
  • Chapter 10 Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Name index
  • Subject index