The Genitive V. the Of-construction: A Study of Syntactic Variation in 17th Century EnglishGleerup, 1982 - 318 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 117
... nouns with personal gender character- istics such as human nouns , collective nouns and higher animals , whereas OF " is chiefly used with nouns that belong to the bottom of the gender scale " ( p 201 ) , such as lower animals and inani- ...
... nouns with personal gender character- istics such as human nouns , collective nouns and higher animals , whereas OF " is chiefly used with nouns that belong to the bottom of the gender scale " ( p 201 ) , such as lower animals and inani- ...
الصفحة 124
... nouns show a rather strong GEN preference ( 66 % ) , collective nouns have an even stronger tendency to reject it ( 10 % ) . Animal nouns , the smallest animate subcategory , tend to prefer OF even if GEN is relatively common ( 44 ...
... nouns show a rather strong GEN preference ( 66 % ) , collective nouns have an even stronger tendency to reject it ( 10 % ) . Animal nouns , the smallest animate subcategory , tend to prefer OF even if GEN is relatively common ( 44 ...
الصفحة 132
... NOUNS Nouns denoting animals form the smallest of the animate categor- ies ( 24 ex ) . They accept GEN more readily than collective nouns ( 14/24 = 58 % ) , although they do not reach the level of individual human nouns . In prose , OF ...
... NOUNS Nouns denoting animals form the smallest of the animate categor- ies ( 24 ex ) . They accept GEN more readily than collective nouns ( 14/24 = 58 % ) , although they do not reach the level of individual human nouns . In prose , OF ...
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17th century adjective ambiguity animacy animate Mod apostrophe Appositive Celia Fiennes choice of construction combinations comedies common compounds conditioning effect conditioning factor context coordinated distinction early Modern English expressions favour Fillmore finite clauses following examples function GEN frequency GEN OF Total GEN preference GEN selection GEN/OF variation genres gerundive grammar group genitive Head Hence inanimate Mods influence informal prose instance interpretation Jespersen John John's language lexical linguistic Locative Mann Mark Middle English modality Modern English modifying nominal non-finite clauses non-restrictive normally objective occur Oeff of-constructions of-phrase paraphrase period periphrastic plural possessive possible postmodifying Poutsma premodifiers present material proper nouns Quantifying Quirk relative clause religious prose Restoration comedy restricted right-branching role sake semantic sentence singular structure stylistic subtypes synonymy syntactic Table texts thematic tion tive underlying variables verb verse xMod zero form