Genitive Case ( Concept )
http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/GenitiveCase
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|_ Linguistic Property
|_ Morphosyntactic Property
|_ Case Property
|_ Genitive Case
Definition:
GenitiveCase is used to mark the noun whose referent is the possessor of the referent of another noun [Crystal 1980: 161; Hartmann and Stork 1972: 94-95, 180; Pei and Gaynor 1954: 82, 172; Anderson 1985: 185; Fleming 1988: 10].
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Examples
Language Code:
lez
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| Now their farm will not stay behind forever. |
References:
Haspelmath (1993:207)
Language Code:
lmw
Lake Miwok has ten case enclitics, illustrated in the examples. The genitive identifies possessors.
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| coyote skin |
References:
Mithun (1999:204-5) FROM Callaghan (1963: 96-98)
Language Code:
gle
The progressive passive is a passive in Irish Gaelic in which the preposition 'at' is used, and a semantic meaning of progressive tense is found.
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| She was collecting mushrooms. |
References:
Noonan (1994:280)
Language Code:
cjc
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| Malika climbed up and down the mountain. |
References:
Good (2003:23)
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