The Genitive V. the Of-construction: A Study of Syntactic Variation in 17th Century English

17th century ambiguity animate apostrophe appositive Chapter character choice of construction clause combinations comedies common comparatively complex compounds conditioning considerably containing context coordinated corpus determined distinction distribution effect element English especially examined examples expansion expressions fact factors final function GEN frequency genitive genres given hand Head Hence human illustrated important inanimate included indication influence instance interest interpretation John John's kind language less letter lexical linguistic locative majority Mark material means modifying names natural normally nouns objective occur period phrases plural position possessive possible postmodifying preference prepositional present proper prose reason regarded relative religious represent respectively restricted result role sake seems selection semantic sentence shows side singular situation structure stylistic syntactic Table tend texts tion tive variables variation varies various verb verse whereas whole