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	Saxon genitive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Saxon genitive is the traditional term used for the "'s" word-ending in the English language.
		The modern Saxon genitive is derived from the strong masculine genitive case of Old English.
		The term "Saxon genitive" is in analogy to the genitive in classical Latin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saxon_genitive (164 words)

	Genitive case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The genitive case (also called the second case) is a grammatical case that indicates a relationship, primarily one of possession, between the noun in the genitive case and another noun.
		Some argue that it is a common misconception that English nouns have a genitive case, marked by the possessive -'s ending (known as the saxon genitive).
		The 18th century explanation that the apostrophe might replace a genitive pronoun, as in "the king's horse" being a shortened form of "the king, his horse", is erroneous (a construction which actually occurs in German dialects and has replaced the genitive there, together with the "of" construction that also exists in English).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Genitive (917 words)

	Saxon genitive: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The saxon genitive is the traditional term used for the "'s" word ending in the English language English language quick summary:
		The genitive case is a grammatical case that indicates a relationship, primarily one of possession, between the noun in the genitive case and another noun....
		The term "saxon genitive" is in analogy to the genitive in classical Latin[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link].
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/saxon_genitive.htm (335 words)

	Apostrophe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The special circumstances of the latter case may be this: the customary pronunciation of this place name is reflected in the addition of an extra -s; since usage is firmly against a doubling of the final -s without an apostrophe, this place name has an apostrophe.
		This could be regarded as an example of a double genitive: it refers to the park of the church of St James.
		The 's ending is sometimes called the Saxon genitive, but is now generally considered a clitic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Apostrophe_(punctuation) (3366 words)

	[No title]
		Besides genitives introduced by al, Romanian has two other types of analytic genitives: the "partitive" genitive formed by an al-genitive preceded by the preposition de 'of' (douà studente de-ale Mariei 'two students of-ale Mary'Gen) and a prepositional genitive built with the invariable preposition a.
		The occurrence of a synthetic genitive is furthermore subject to a strict adjacency constraint with the head noun: (3) a.
		Thus, in the general case, the genitive function is not named by the head noun, but remains underspecified; the only role of the head noun being to restrict the value of the function.
	www.linguist.jussieu.fr /~mardale/genitives-Rumgr-2003.doc (4479 words)

	Possessive case or Saxon genitive? - The English Companions Gathering \| Forums \| General Discussion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Interestingly enough on the www.about.com website, I saw ‘Saxon genitive’ used for the possessive case and ‘Norman genitive’ for the of-genitive.
		I think the "possessive case" and "saxon genitive" are basically the same thing.
		Genitive is a grammatical case, one of the functions of which is to express the possessive.
	www.tha-engliscan-gesithas.org.uk /gegaderung/link.asp?TOPIC_ID=3617 (1633 words)

	WikiMiki.net - Genitive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		It is a common misconception that English nouns have a genitive case, marked by the possessive -'s ending (known as the saxon genitive).
		It is not the same as the genitive case, though the two have similar meanings in many languages.
		Suffixaufnahme (German for "suffix-absorption") is a linguistic phenomenon whereby a genitive noun declines to match its head noun, and vice-versa.
	lamp.en.wikimiki.net /en/Genitive (12514 words)

	AppendixC.Glossary of Terms in This Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The genitive form is not present in Latin-derived languages, or non-European languages, and can therefore cause difficulty for readers and translators.
		The genitive form is created by adding apostrophe s to the end of a proper noun.
		In the original form, the genitive was created by adding an -es suffix to a noun.
	developer.gnome.org /documents/style-guide/language.html (196 words)

	latin or germanic (page 2) \| Antimoon Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		For example, in modern spoken German, is preferred over the use of the genitive case (which shows up rarely in speech) for this very role, similarly in modern spoken Dutch, is used much more than the genitive case itself is, and the genitive case is absent altogether in Low Saxon.
		True the lack of genitive case (for nouns, articles, demonstratives) is not incompatible with the presence of ~~-possessive.~~
		Because the use of possessive determiners and the attributive use of the genitive clitic preclude the use of any other determiners, and sometimes one wants to say that it is specifically "a" thing or "the" thing or "that" thing which is being possessed.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/posts/6840-2.htm (2090 words)

	genitive
		The term is used in the grammar of other languages, but the phenomenon referred to may not closely resemble a Latin genitive; thus a Latin genitive will be translated by a number of different cases in Finnish.
		The Abolition of Female Genital Mutilation - In 1994, when a 17-year-old girl from Togo sought asylum in the United States to escape genital...
		A friend of my mother('s): on the use of genitive vs. common case in postmodifying of-phrases.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0820484.html (151 words)

	Saxon Definition / Saxon Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Saxons were a large and powerful Germanic people located in what is now northwestern Germany The Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland) is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the heart of Europe.
		The Danish language name is Slesvig-Holsten, the Low Saxon language name is Sleswig-Holsteen and the Dutch name is Sleeswijk-Holstein.
		SAXON is a cut-down version of the full SAXON package.
	www.elresearch.com /Saxon (367 words)

	Saxon genitive
		I also don't know why it should be called a Saxon genitive except in as much as the shreds of case system we have left in English originate from Anglo-Saxon invasions?
		genitive, because like latin, it means that smtg belongs to smtg else.
		It is called saxon genitive, because it comes from the genitive case of old english.
	www.englishforums.com /English/SaxonGenitive/zxln/Post.htm (248 words)

	zompist bboard :: View topic - Adjectival cases vs. adverbial cases
		It looks like all but one of the examples is Russian; which has a "partititive genitive" and a "genitive of negation", one or the other or both or neither of which might be the "Genitive II".
		Genitive apposition, as in English: the city of London = the city, i.e./that is to say London.
		The discussion about Genitive 1,2,3 etc. above was concerned with languages that have two or more formally different cases that are called genitive I, II, etc. (for lack of imagination of the grammarians, or because both/all these cases have been referred to as genitives in the grammatical tradition).
	www.spinnoff.com /zbb/viewtopic.php?t=15809&view=previous&sid=017ccc065955d01bac5fc7529013fe4b (4385 words)

	Elementary: Level 1B. Genitive Error Correction - Answer Sheet. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Level 1B: Pre-Intermediate >> Error Correction >> Use of the genitive "'s" is tested here in this worksheet consisting of correct and incorrect usage.
		In each of these sentences, there is an example of the genitive 's.
		John's mother is the head of the local computer company.
	www.esl-lounge.com /level1b/lev1bgenitiveerrorans.shtml (131 words)

	The Saxon genitive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		English derives in some ways from Anglo-Saxon and one of the things the language has is a special form of genitive case, the way that we show that something belongs to something else.
		This is part of the rule of the Saxon genitive.
		Another rule is that pronouns don't take the apostrophe - "his table", "his book", "its dinner" and that is part of the problem.
	baptism.co.nz /gram12.html (313 words)

	can u explain this please? - Englishpage.com Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The book you were reading, however, decided to follow the Latin model and say that English nouns come in all those different cases, but that most of those cases use the same forms.
		The only form of English nouns that corresponds to one of those listed cases is the "possessive", or "genitive" case.
		The one that originated in the Anglo Saxon language uses some combination of apostrophe and the letter "s".
	www.englishpage.com /forums/showthread.php?t=4082 (600 words)

	HighBeam Research: Reference Search: Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		An example of this is the boy's murder, in which the genitive form boy's denotes not possession (as in the...
		A noun, etc. in the genitive case, or its equivalent, whose semantic relation to a head noun is like that of...
		Construction in which a noun, etc. in the genitive case, or its equivalent, has a semantic relation to a head...
	www.highbeam.com /ref/ref_search.asp?FN=AO&search_dictionaries=on&refid=ency_refd&q=genitive (286 words)

	COROLLARY THEOREMS - GRAMMAR: NOUN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Genitive Case expresses the possessive relations a noun has in a sentence.
		We also notice the noun "Mary" is in apposition to the Subject, and the noun "John" is in Genitive Case.
		The formation of the Saxon Genitive has few interesting particularities, and I will list the most important ones.
	www.corollarytheorems.com /Grammar/nouns.htm (1130 words)

	The Saxon Genitive (Linguistics)
		The rule that tricks up many people concerns the useage of the /s/ morpheme in genitive plurals, where preferred usage calls for the addition of /s/ ONLY when it is articulated as an independent syllable.
		Nominative plural "Williams" becomes genitive plural "Williamses," as there is an added syllable at the end, but there is no phonetic variation for the nominative and genitive forms of "Johnsons."
		In reading over this thread, and the KudoZ thread on the topic of English s-genitive, it appears that most posters are taking a writing surface-level, synchronic (snapshot today), view rather than seeing that the current written form results from a diachronic, historical linguistic perspective of the English language.
	www.proz.com /topic/40771 (1343 words)

	The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar: genitive @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The genitive is marked in nouns by the addition of ' s to regular singular nouns and to plurals that lack s (e.g.
		The genitive thus contrasts with the COMMON case.
		Some grammarians, however, think that, although it is a relic of the earlier English case system, it should no...
	www.highbeam.com /doc/1O28:genitive/genitive.html?refid=ip_hf (185 words)

	Saxon genitive, descriptive genitive? (Linguistics)
		I was wrong to state so baldly "there's no other way of saying it"...what I meant was that the genitive is perfectly normal, and is often the only natural-sounding way to express the idea.
		The genitive is not, as I already pointed out in my kudos answer, used exclusively to indicate possession.
		The genitive in the phrase "an hour's yoga" is a case in point: it does NOT denote POSSESSION.It is, as far as I am aware, an example of the DESCRIPTIVE GENITIVE, which is frequently used to describe duration (as MUJA confirmed).
	www.proz.com /post/75025 (930 words)

	Genitives - Page:8
		It is called the double genitive, or post-genitive.
		The apostrophe is used to show that something belongs to something else (It's called the Genitive case).
		What do we do when we have two names and we want to apply the saxon genitive to both individuals: E.g.
	www.englishforums.com /search/8/Genitives.htm (406 words)

	Post Genitive Or Double Genitive - WordReference Forums
		There are very few idyomatic phrases in which the Genitive is used with "things" as well but they are out of rule.
		It seems to me that the double genitive mark —of and ´s- is related back to Old English -the language spoken in Great Britain before the Norman Conquest- and Latin interference.
		Latin genitive is expressed by suffixes and the resulting romance language genitive case began changing into of, yet possession in Old English was denoted by adding —es, i.e king, kinges.
	forum.wordreference.com /showthread.php?t=3634 (2778 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		One interpretation of this language difference is that comprehension preferences are affected in a complex and indirect way by the availability in a language of more than one genitive form (e.g., in English the Saxon as well as the Norman form).
		In the present chapter, we investigate the proposal by carrying out a detailed analysis of reading data for Dutch sentences that have a felicitous Saxon genitive alternative, and by looking at off-line questionnaire data for Afrikaans, which like English has a frequently-used Saxon genitive form.
		Both sets of data argue against the proposal that cross-linguistic attachment differences can be explained in terms of the availability of alternative syntactic devices for expressing possessive relations.
	expsy.ugent.be /research/abstracts/marc/Brys-5.html (242 words)

	saxon genitive - WordReference Forums
		my ideas on the saxon genitive are a little confused...
		Maybe for us, I mean the one not using saxon genitive, it's very difficult to understand since it's not an habit we have in our genes
		Le regole vengono ricercate da ambo le parti, continuiamo a ricevere richieste al riguardo, perché ci danno sicurezza, basterebbe memorizzare la tal regola e siamo a posto, ma le lingue non sono così, sono molto più complesse ed affascinanti.
	forum.wordreference.com /showthread.php?t=10237 (1943 words)

	genitive - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		Phrases that include genitive: genitive case, attributive genitive, saxon genitive
		Words similar to genitive: possessive, genitive case, possessive case, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=genitive (208 words)

	Genitives - Page:9
		Version 2 is possessive (or more broadly, genitive) and shows the correct use of the apostrophe.
		Ah, but when we get done with you, Steven, you'll be wowing the women with your command of the Saxon genitive!
		I think 'the Saxon genitive' sounds like what the Normans called the peasants' naughty parts.
	www.englishforums.com /search/9/Genitives.htm (315 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Saxon genitive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
		Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Saxon genitive; all previous versions may be viewed here.
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	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=Saxon_genitive (286 words)

	The saxon genitive question - reply (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Subject: Re: Saxon Genitive xy wrote: > > Dear Mr.
		But it is obviously so, or why should you employ > the saxon genitive (Stefan's) which is just non-existent in German.
		Old languages are dying, new languages are emerging.
	user.uni-frankfurt.de /~haberme/saxongenitive.html (340 words)

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