Mr. Jukes-Browne and the Genitive

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The Early Modern Genitive Its and Factors Involved in Genitive Variation

This article explores the variation between the emergent genitive its and the periphrastic form of it in Early Modern English, situating this case in the larger picture of English genitive variation. As previous studies have often focused on non-pronominal possessors (given that Present Day English pronominal possessors often appear prenominally, with limited variation), this early pronominal g...

The genitive ratio and its applications

unless there is a specific statement to the contrary. The three categories – animate, concrete, abstract are not discrete. They are rendered porous by the polysemy of the English language. A common example is the noun chair, which might be concrete (an item of furniture) or animate (the person responsible for the process of a meeting). Connell and Lynott (2012: 461) cite substitute and kingdom ...

Genitive Modifiers, Sorts, and Metonymy

Our long-term goal is to contribute to the integration of formal and lexical semantics. Our more immediate theoretical starting point is the idea of “text as theory”, within a model-theoretic semantic framework. We describe a set of empirical problems in the domain of genitive modifiers which offer a challenge to theories of the integration of lexical, compositional, and contextual information....