Possessives World-Wide: Genitive Variation in Varieties of English

doi:10.1017/9781108303576.014

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Print publication year: 2019
Online publication date: October 2019

Chapter 13 - Possessives World-Wide: Genitive Variation in Varieties of English

from Part III - Comparative and Typological Approaches

By Benedikt Heller, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

Edited by Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Universidade de Vigo, Spain, Emma Moore, University of Sheffield, Linda van Bergen, University of Edinburgh, Willem B. Hollmann, Lancaster University
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108303576.014
pp 315-335

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In this chapter we investigate regional patterns in the variation between the two major explicit possessive constructions in the grammar of English, the s-genitive (as in (1a)) and the of-genitive (as in (1b)).

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Chapter 13 - Possessives World-Wide: Genitive Variation in Varieties of English

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