- 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...
- English, the
genitive case was productive, and
adverbial genitives were commonplace.
While Modern English does not
fully retain the
genitive case, it has...
- 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...
- 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...
-
belonging to a
particular group of whites'.
Attributive genitives resemble possessive genitives except that (1) the
modifiers follow their heads, and (2)...
- A
carnivore /ˈkɑːrnɪvɔːr/, or meat-eater (Latin, caro,
genitive carnis,
meaning meat or "flesh" and
vorare meaning "to devour"), is an
animal or plant...
- In grammar, a
genitive construction or
genitival construction is a type of
grammatical construction used to
express a
relation between two
nouns such as...
- for the
double genitive: a
friend of mine. The
ending -'s as in In Dublin's Fair City,
which is uncommon. In
classical Gr****: "
Genitive of explanation"...
- 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...
