- the "Saxon
genitive"), as well as
possessive adjective forms such as his, their, etc., and in
certain words derived from
adverbial genitives such as once...
- of
genitive case. The
history of the "his"
genitives in
English is
extensively covered in
Allen (2008).
There were two
periods of "his"
genitives. In...
- In grammar, a
genitive construction or
genitival construction is a type of
grammatical construction used to
express a
relation between two
nouns such as...
- English, the
genitive case was productive, and
adverbial genitives were commonplace.
While Modern English does not
fully retain the
genitive case, it has...
- Gr**** grammar, the
genitive absolute is a
grammatical construction consisting of a
participle and
often a noun both in the
genitive case,
which is very...
- head and
phrasal genitives involve case inflection. With head
genitives it is
always a noun that inflects,
while the
phrasal genitive can
apply to words...
- A
genitive connector is a part of
speech used in
formation of
compound terms through conjunctions. It is used
especially in the
Bantu languages to denote...
- head and
phrasal genitives involve case inflection. With head
genitives it is
always a noun that inflects,
while the
phrasal genitive can
apply to words...
-
authors refer to as possessives,
others may call
genitives, and vice versa. Nowadays, however, the term
genitive is most
commonly used in
relation to languages...
- English, have prepositions. Most subject–verb–object
languages place genitives after the noun, but a
significant minority,
including the postpositional...
