The Genitive
1st Edition
Published in August 2013
VII, 356 pages
978-90-272-9105-9 (ISBN)
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This volume, the fifth in the series Case and Grammatical Relations across Languages, is devoted to genitive constructions in a range of Indo-European languages (Russian, French, Romanian, German and Swedish), as well as Finnish, Bantu languages and Northern Akhvakh (Northeast Caucasian). Definitions of genitives typically start out from the notion of an inflectional marker, often suffixal, that marks dependency relations of a noun phrase with respect to another noun phrase and conveys possessive meaning. The contributions in this volume demonstrate a huge range of variation in genitives, semantically (from possessive meaning to generalized dependency), morphologically (from affixes to different types of clitics) and syntactically (from adnominal uses to argument relations and adjunct uses). The volume contains both general surveys of genitives and case studies of the semantics, pragmatics and historical development of specific genitive constructions. It will be of interest to scholars and students in syntax, semantics, morphology, typology, and historical linguistics.
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- The Genitive
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Genitive case and genitive constructions
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Genitive semantics
- 3. Genitive marking
- 4. Genitives beyond adnominal functions
- 5. Papers in this volume
- References
- Endnotes
- Part 1. General surveys
- The genitive case and the possessive construction in Finnish
- 1. Introduction1
- 2. The genitive as a structural case
- 2.1 Preposed NP modifier of a N head
- 2.2 Preposed AP modifier of an A or Adv head
- 2.3 Preposed NP or AP complement to an A head
- 2.4 Preposed NP complement to a P head
- 2.5 NP subject of participial clauses
- 2.6 Direct NP object of certain kinds of VP
- 2.7 Postposed NP modifier of certain types of VP
- 3. The "dative-genitive" issue
- 3.1 The necessive construction
- 3.2 The permissive construction
- 3.3 The experiencer construction
- 3.4 The "dative-genitive" predicate
- 3.5 The loose "dative-genitive"
- 3.6 The historical background
- 4. The possessive construction
- 4.1 Contra inversion
- 4.2 A transformational analysis
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Endnotes
- The Russian genitive within the NP and the VP
- 1. Introduction1
- 2. Genitive morphology
- 2.1 The marking of the genitive
- 2.2 Genitive/accusative syncretism and animacy
- 2.3 U-genitive vs. a-genitive
- 3. Genitive case within the NP
- 3.1 The adnominal genitive
- 3.2 The genitive of quantification
- 4. Genitive case within the VP
- 4.1 The intensional genitive
- 4.2 The genitive of negation
- 4.3 The partitive genitive
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Endnotes
- Nominal and pronominal possessors in Romanian
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The alternation between bare genitives and al-genitives and the status of al
- 2.1 The distribution of bare genitives and al-phrases
- 2.2 The analysis of al-phrases
- 2.3 The history of al. From determiner to genitive marker.
- 2.4 The syntax of pronominal possessors
- 3. Feature uniqueness and the choice between agreeing and non-agreeing possessors
- 3.1 Agreeing pronominal possessors are referential expressions
- 3.2 Feature uniqueness and the choice between agreeing and non-agreeing possessors
- 3.3 The morphosyntactic make-up of pronouns
- 3.4 Accounting for the (im)possibility of agreeing pronominal possessors
- References
- Endnotes
- De: A genitive marker in French?
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Is the category of the genitive relevant for Romance languages?
- 1.2 The complex relationship between genitive and ablative in a long-term perspective
- 1.3 Central hypotheses of the paper
- 2. De + NP in Latin
- 2.1 The morpho-syntactic status of the preposition in an evolutionary perspective
- 2.2 De + ablative versus ablative without preposition
- 2.3 Typology8
- 2.4 Competition between genitive case and "de + ablative" in Latin
- 2.5 Degree of grammaticalization of the preposition de in Latin
- 3. De + NP in Old and Middle French
- 3.1 Typology
- 3.2 Non-prepositional vs. prepositional adnominal complements in Old and Middle French
- 3.3 Degree of grammaticalization of de in Old and Middle French
- 4. De + NP in Modern French
- 4.1 Typology
- 4.2 Competition between "case" and "de + NP"
- 4.3 Degree of grammaticalization of de
- 5. General conclusion
- References
- Endnotes
- The Bantu connective construction
- 1. Introduction1
- 2. The canonical connective construction
- 3. Departures from the canonical R2
- 3.1 R2 has adjectival features
- 3.2 R2 has verbal characteristics
- 3.3 R2 is pronominal
- 3.4 Miscellaneous other departures
- 4. Departures from the canonical connective relator
- 4.1 Unconditioned variants
- 4.2 "Amplexives"
- 4.3 Different relators for different relations
- 4.4 Tense
- 5. Departures from the canonical dependency relations
- 5.1 Dependency reversal: R1 is the attribute
- 5.2 R1 and R2 are coreferential
- 5.3 The connective construction has a non-compositional meaning
- 6. Departures from the canonical R1
- 6.1 R1 is not a canonical noun
- 6.2 R1 is absent
- 7. Departures from the canonical arrangement of constituents
- 7.1 R1, con and R2 are not adjacent
- 7.2 The order of elements is not R1 con R2
- 8. Conclusions
- References
- Endnotes
- Part 2. Case studies
- Word order restrictions in adnominal constructions
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Topic of the paper and composition of the corpus
- 2.1 Unmodified proper names as pre- or postnominal genitives4
- 2.2 Corpus
- 2.3 Postnominal genitive versus von-phrase
- 3. Factors excluding variation between pre- and postnominal genitives of proper names
- 3.1 Semantic factors
- 3.2 Syntactic factor: Modification of the head or genitive noun
- 4. Factors hampering variation between pre- and postnominal genitives of proper names
- 4.1 Semantic factor: Agent/patient role expressed by the genitive
- 4.2 Syntactic factors
- 4.3 Pragmatic factor: Information focus and participant identifiability
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Primary Literature
- Secondary Literature
- Endnotes
- Tracing the origins of the Swedish group genitive
- 1. Introduction1
- 1.1 On genitives and s-genitives
- 1.2 Group genitives
- 1.3 Sources and method
- 1.4 A few notes on textual evidence
- 2. Setting the scene
- 2.1 The Old Swedish case system
- 2.2 Early history of the Swedish genitive
- 3. Genitive NPs with prepositional attributes in the history of Swedish
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 PP's with af 'of'
- 3.3 PP's with i 'in'
- 3.4 Summary
- 4. Discussion and suggestions for further research
- Sources (other than the ones mentioned in Table 1)
- References
- Endnotes
- Floating genitives and possessive framing in Northern Akhvakh
- 1. Introduction1
- 2. General remarks on Akhvakh morphosyntax
- 2.1 Clause structure
- 2.2 Nouns and noun phrases
- 2.3 Verb inflection
- 3. Genitive formation in Northern Akhvakh
- 3.1 Genitives with and without the genitive suffix - i
- 3.2 Zero-marked genitives
- 3.3 Genitives marked by the suffix - i
- 3.4 Variations in the distribution of the two variants of the genitive
- 4. Attributive genitives and other syntactic uses of genitives in Northern Akhvakh
- 4.1 Attributive genitives
- 4.2 Other syntactic uses of genitives in Northern Akhvakh
- 5. Floating genitives
- 5.1 The notion of floating genitive
- 5.2 Agreement properties and syntactic status of floating genitives
- 5.3 Semantic properties of floating genitives
- 5.4 Possessive predication, a particular case of the floating genitive construction
- 5.5 Conclusion
- 6. The floating genitives of Akhvakh in typological perspective
- 7. Conclusion
- References
- Endnotes
- Index
