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UNIT 16. THE EXPRESSION OF POSSESSION
GRAMMATICAL CONCEPT OF A PERSON OR…
UNIT 16. THE EXPRESSION OF POSSESSION
- GRAMMATICAL CONCEPT OF A PERSON OR THING BELONGING TO ANOTHER
SAXON GENITIVE
ORIGINS
- OLD ENGLISH INFLECTIONAL ENDING -ES.
- HIS THEORY
- FORMED USED FOR POSSESSIONS MALES AND FEMALES
- SCHOLARS DISAGREED SINCE 18TH
- EXAMPLES 16TH AND 17TH
FORM
- SING AND PLU NOUNS NOT ENDING IN -S: +'S --> THE JOURNALIST'S RIGHT TO EXPRESS HIMSELF
- PLURAL NOUNS ENDING -S: ONLY APOSTROPHE --> THE TERRORISTS' ATTACKS
- CLASSICAL NAMES + 1 SYLLABLE: ONLY APOSTROPHE--> ACHILLES' WEAKNESS
- MANY PROPER NAMES ENDING -S: BOTH FORMS --> JAMES'S NOVELS / JAMES' NOVELS :warning:
PHONETICS
- /Z/ VOICED NON-SIBILANTS
- /S/ VOICELESS NON-SIBILANTS
- /IZ/ SIBILANTS
FUNCTIONS OF GENITIVE
ATTRIBUTE
- WITH A HEADWORD GRAMMATICALLY SUBORDINATED
CLASSIFYING
- THE WORD IN GENITIVE IS A PARTICULAR PERSON OR THING
- POSSESSOR: MADONNA'S SONGS
- TWO OR MORE POSSESSORS: DIFF ALTERNATIVES
ESPECIFYING
- WORD IN GENITIVE IS THE CLASS TO WHICH THE HEADWORD BELONGS: A FOOL'S GAME
INDEPENDENT: NO HEADWORD
SEMI-INDEPENDENT
- HEADWORD IS OMITTED BC IT'S MENTIONED IMMEDIATELY BEFORE OR AFTER.
- THIS HOUSE IS RICHARD'S
- QUIRK ELLIPTIC GENITIVE
POST-GENITIVE
- OF-GENITIVE CONSTRUCTION
- A FRIEND OF JOHN'S
- QUIRCK: DOUBLE GENITIVE
LOCAL GENITIVE
- PROPER NAMES
- TRADESMEN DESIGNATION
- RELATIONSHIP
- SUSTANTIVISED TO EXPERSS LOCALITY
- HEADWORD NOWHERE
- INSTITUTIONS
- SHOPS
- SOMEONE'S HOUSE
MEANING
- POSSESSIVE: HEADWORD NOUN, GENITIVE POSSESSOR
- SUBJECTIVE: HEADWORD ACTION, GENITIVE AGENT
- OBJECTIVE: GENITIVE IS RECEIVER OF ACTION. OF-CONSTRUCTION
- DESCRIPTIVE
OTHER WAYS
HAVE: NEGATIVE AND INTERROGATIVE
- DO: SENSE OF HABIT
- NO SENSE OF HABIT: AMERICANS DO / BRITISH HAVE NOT GOT OR HAVE YOU GOT
- GOT IS OPTIONAL
- AFFIRMATIVE: HAVE GOT IS CONTRACTED
OTHER VERBS
- POSSESS, BELONG TO, OWN
- BOAST, ENJOY, HOLD
OWN
- EMPHATIC OR REFLEXIVE WITH AN ATTIBUTIVE POSSESSIVE
- MODIFIED WITH INTENSIFIER VERY
- PRONOUN
- WITH OF-CONSTRUCTION
ING
- WITH AN POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVE: DOESN'T LIKE MY MAKING :warning:
- WITH GENITIVE: YOUR SON'S LETTING US :warning:
THE OF-CONSTRUCTION
SAXON GENITIVE
- PROPER NOUNS AND NAMES
- HIGH ANIMALS
*COLLECTIVE NOUNS
*TEMPORAL NOUNS
- SOME SET PHRASES
- INANIMATE PERSONIFIED NOUNS: MOON, SUN, VESSEL
CO-EXISTENCE
- WITH PROPER NOUNS TO EMPHASISE THE NAME
- OF-CONSTRUCTION INSTEAD OF OBJECTIVE POSSESSIVE
OF-CONSTRUCTION
- NOUNS DENOTING THINGS
- LOWER ANIMALS
- EXPRESSIONS WITH TOP, BOTTOM, BACK
- PARTITIVES
*CONTAINER AND CONTENT
- SUBSTANTIVISED ADJETIVES
-
RELATIVE PRONOUNS:
- INFLECTED WHOSE: PERSONAL AND NON-PERSONAL ANTECEDENTS
- PROPOSITIONAL OF WHICH: NON-PERSONAL ANTECEDENTS
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