Genitive Variation in English
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Genitive Variation in English

Conceptual Factors in Synchronic and Diachronic Studies

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  2. English
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Genitive Variation in English

Conceptual Factors in Synchronic and Diachronic Studies

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. List of abbreviations
  3. 1 Introduction
  4. 2 The structure of the s-genitive and the of-genitive: some theoretical preliminaries
  5. 2.1 The constructions
  6. 2.2 The nature of the relational markers
  7. 2.3 The nature of the grammatical relation between possessor and possessum
  8. 2.4 Terminology revisited
  9. 3 Grammatical variation
  10. 3.1 The study of variation in linguistics: brief historical outline
  11. 3.2 Extending the concept of variation to (morpho)syntax
  12. 3.3 Establishing the alternation between the s-genitive and the of-genitive as a case of grammatical variation
  13. 4 Factors: Animacy, topicality, and possessive relation
  14. 4.1 Animacy
  15. 4.2 Topicality
  16. 4.3 Possessive relation
  17. 4.4 Interaction of factors
  18. 4.5 Summary and discussion
  19. 5 “Variation” versus “choice”
  20. 5.1 Variation-based approaches
  21. 5.2 Choice-based approaches
  22. 5.3 Towards a choice-based approach of the genitive variation: outline of approach to grammatical variation in the present study
  23. 6 Modern English data: experimental study
  24. 6.1 Why using an experimental design?
  25. 6.2 Deriving predictions in a choice-based approach: iconic and natural principles
  26. 6.3 Research questions for the present study
  27. 6.4 Experimental study
  28. 6.5 Summary and general discussion
  29. 7 Historical development of the genitive variation
  30. 7.1 Old English: prenominal versus postnominal genitive
  31. 7.2 Middle English: the gradual decline of the s-genitive
  32. 7.3 Early Modern English: no further change?
  33. 7.4 Against all odds? The revival of the s-genitive in early Modern English
  34. 7.5 The revival of the s-genitive and the structural change of POSS’s from inflection to clitic and determiner
  35. 7.6 General summary
  36. 8 A diachronic scenario: the extension of the s-genitive from late Middle to Modern English – economically-driven language change?
  37. 8.1 Notions of economy in linguistics
  38. 8.2 Speaker versus hearer economy
  39. 8.3 Cognitive economy and grammatical variation
  40. 8.4 The role of cognitive economy in language change
  41. 8.5 “Economy” in the present study
  42. 8.6 The explanandum: the diachronic extension of the s-genitive from late Middle English to Modern English
  43. 9 Summary and conclusion
  44. 10 Appendix
  45. 10.1 Experimental study
  46. 10.2 Corpus analysis (1400 – 1630)
  47. Notes
  48. Bibliography
  49. Name index
  50. Subject index