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The Attributive Genitive in Early New High German: A Semantic Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2008

Ruth Lunt Lanouette
Ruth Lunt Lanouette
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Lawrence UniversityDepartment of GermanAppleton, WI 54912 [[email protected]]
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In this paper I examine the effect of the semantic relationship between an attributive genitive and its head noun on the relative ordering of the two during the ENHG period. Data were collected from five sources, all written between 1500 and 1550 by men who were natives of the city Nuremburg. Since it has been shown that personal genitives more frequently preceded the head noun, while nonpersonal genitives more often followed, the data were broken down into those two categories. It is shown that personal subjective and objective genitives are more likely to follow the head noun than personal genitives in general, while personal possessive and relational genitives are more likely to precede.

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Journal of Germanic Linguistics , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , Spring 1998 , pp. 73 - 90
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Copyright © Society for Germanic Linguistics 1998

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