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- Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax
- Studies in English Language
- Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Analysing English Syntax Past and Present
- Part I Approaches to Grammatical Categories and Categorial Change
- Part II Approaches to Constructions and Constructional Change
- Part III Comparative and Typological Approaches
- Chapter 11 The Role Played by Analogy in Processes of Language Change: The Case of English Have-to Compared to Spanish Tener-que
- Chapter 12 Modelling Step Change: The History of Will-Verbs in Germanic
- Chapter 13 Possessives World-Wide: Genitive Variation in Varieties of English
- Chapter 14 American English: No Written Standard before the Twentieth Century?
- References
- Index
Chapter 13 - Possessives World-Wide: Genitive Variation in Varieties of English
from Part III - Comparative and Typological Approaches
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2019
- Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax
- Studies in English Language
- Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Analysing English Syntax Past and Present
- Part I Approaches to Grammatical Categories and Categorial Change
- Part II Approaches to Constructions and Constructional Change
- Part III Comparative and Typological Approaches
- Chapter 11 The Role Played by Analogy in Processes of Language Change: The Case of English Have-to Compared to Spanish Tener-que
- Chapter 12 Modelling Step Change: The History of Will-Verbs in Germanic
- Chapter 13 Possessives World-Wide: Genitive Variation in Varieties of English
- Chapter 14 American English: No Written Standard before the Twentieth Century?
- References
- Index
Summary
In this chapter we investigate regional patterns in the variation between the two major explicit possessive constructions in the grammar of English, the s-genitive (as in (1a)) and the of-genitive (as in (1b)).
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- Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax , pp. 315 - 335Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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