The Genitive
The Genitive

Author: Anne Carlier

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2013-07-17

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9027291055

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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.

Gateway to Arabic
Gateway to Arabic

Author: Imran Hamza Alawiye

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9780954083304

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Introduces the learner to a range of Arabic vocabulary grouped according to subject, including items within the home and school, animals, shapes, fruit and vegetables, and others. This work also provides learners with a basic knowledge of Arabic grammar, enabling them to take their first steps in understanding and using non-verbal sentences.

THE GENITIVE-PARTITIVE RELATION IN ENGLISH, FRENCH AND ROMANIAN
THE GENITIVE-PARTITIVE RELATION IN ENGLISH, FRENCH AND ROMANIAN

Author: IONELA GANEA

Publisher: Editura Universității din București - Bucharest University Press

Published: 2022-01-01

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 6061613156

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The purpose of this paper is to analyse the genitive-partitive relation in Germanic and Romance languages. One of the points of interest of this analysis is represented by a description of the two terms, that is the genitive and the partitive in all these three languages.

The Genitive Case in Dutch and German
The Genitive Case in Dutch and German

Author: Alan Scott

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-11-28

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9004183280

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In The Genitive Case in Dutch and German: A Study of Morphosyntactic Change in Codified Languages, Alan K. Scott offers an account of the tension that exists between morphosyntactic change and codification, focusing on the effect that codification has had on the genitive case and alternative constructions in both languages. On the basis of usage data from a wide variety of registers, from the 16th century to the present day, Alan K. Scott demonstrates that codification has preserved obsolescent morphological genitive constructions in Dutch and German while suppressing their potential replacements, and shows that, despite its association with norm-conformant language, the genitive is used to a surprisingly large extent in informal early modern Dutch and modern German sources.

Genitive in Hindi
Genitive in Hindi

Author: Anil Thakur

Publisher: Partridge Publishing

Published: 2016-01-30

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 1482870304

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Linguists and philosophers have attempted different theoretical models to formalize the structural properties and the various uses of the genitives. Consequently, a large number of works listing the different uses of genitives are attested in different languages of the world. The works done from diachronic perspectives are as interesting and open as those done from synchronic perspectives. However, in spite of the attention that the issue of genitives has received in the linguistics tradition, the issue remains open. I have attempted to examine Hindi genitives from the point of view of their treatment in ancient traditional grammars in Indian and Westerns grammatical traditions as well as the way they have been approached in the modern linguistics theories. I have briefly outlined the approaches that ancient grammarians took with regards to the forms and functions of the genitive constructions. In this context, I have cited both Indian and Western grammarians. In the modern linguistics approaches, I discuss works of traditional Hindi grammarians and modern generative linguists. I have specially taken the core assumptions of Chomskyan Case Theory within the principles and Parameters framework of linguistics to examine the internal structure and the syntactic operations within the genitive constructions in Hindi.

Germanic Genitives
Germanic Genitives

Author: Tanja Ackermann

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2018-04-15

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 9027264473

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The papers in this volume focus on the dynamics of one specific cell in morphological paradigms – the genitive. The high amount of diachronic and synchronic variation in all Germanic languages makes the genitive a particularly interesting phenomenon since it allows us, for example, to examine comparable but slightly different diachronic pathways, the relation of synchronic and diachronic variation, and the interplay of linguistic levels (phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics). The findings in this book enhance our understanding of the genitive not only by describing its properties, but also by discussing its demarcation from functional competitors and related grammatical items. Under-researched aspects of well-described languages as well as from lesser-known languages (Faroese, Frisian, Luxembourgish, Yiddish) are examined. The papers included are methodologically diverse and the topics covered range from morphology, syntax, and semantics to the influence of (normative) grammars and the perception and prestige of grammatical items.

Idioms of the Greek New Testament
Idioms of the Greek New Testament

Author: Stanley E. Porter

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1992-07-01

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9781850753797

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The Greek grammar, newly revised and reset for the second edition, which is also available in paperback, can be used as an instructive handbook, as an intermediate level textbook and as a basic reference work to New Testament Greek. The major topics of Greek grammar are treated in a useful pedagodical sequence. Among the innovative treatments are those on tense and aspect, Mood and Attitude, conditional clauses, word order and clause structure, and discourse analysis. The grammar takes account both of the traditional categories of Greek grammar and of recent discussions on structural linguistics.