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Argument Case Leveling toward Genitive

Nerea Madariaga, Olga Romanova · Journal of Language Contact · 2024

Abstract This article contributes to the study of a productive morphosyntactic mechanism in a peculiar type of linguistic variety, the Russian language of Odessa (OdR). This variety was born as a lingua franca in the city of Odessa soon after its foundation, implying the massive acquisition of the Russian language in a nonnative way in its initial stages. Afterwards, it was transmitted to successive generations as a native variety, albeit preserving some of the initial traits. One of the most characteristic traits of OdR is the leveling of argument marking not in favor of accusative/nominative cases, as expected, but in favor of genitive marking. The use of genitive case, i.e., differential genitive case marking on subjects and objects instead of nominative/accusative, is partially present in most Slavic languages. However, in OdR, genitive case spread massively to a wide range of new syntactic positions. We show that the reason for this extension lay in (i) the confluence of different languages and dialects, which involved incomplete acquisition by many inhabitants of the city and notably Yiddish speakers, and (ii) the transmission of innovative traits through bilingual speakers, who followed specific language-internal rules operating also in Child Russian.

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The nature of Genitive Case

SILVESTRI, GIUSEPPINA · Electronic Theses and Dissertations Repository (University of Pisa) · 2013

The research topic of this thesis is an investigation of some aspects of the nominal phrase (DP) in Romance. In particular, this work is concerned with issues related to the architecture of the DPs, such as: - Genitive Case distribution within the nominal phrase; - the process of genitive Case checking; - the prepositionless genitive configuration in Romance varieties. My research into DP nominal Phrases has a twofold purpose: on the one hand, it aims to add some evidence to the diachronic change in the Late Latin Case system up to the early Romance one, by showing that the alleged strict complementarity between the (synthetic) inflectional genitive and the (analytic) prepositional one can be challenged by the persistence of a prepositionless type. This is made viable through the evidence in the early stages of some standard Romance languages and modern non-standard varieties. The impact of this diachronic perspective is rather interesting, also in terms of syntactic parameter resetting in the development process from Latin to Romance. On the other hand, the aforementioned facts regarding the prepositionless configuration shed light on a purely syntactic issue, specifically the structural origin position of N: the sequence patterns of D, N, A, and Gen, provided in this investigation by newly collected data, confirm salient hypotheses about the original position of N and its paths of movement over other categories within the noun phrase.

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Cases and Gender – Genitive Case

Steffen G. Jenkins, Jeremy Duff · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2026

Reading Biblical Greek is aimed at students who are studying New Testament Greek for the first time, or refreshing what they once learned. Designed to supplement and reinforce The Elements of New Testament Greek, by Jeremy Duff, each chapter of this textbook provides lengthy, plot-driven texts that will be accessible as students study each chapter of The Elements. Each text is accompanied by detailed questions, which test comprehension of content from recent lessons and review challenging topics from previous chapters. The graded nature of the texts, together with the copious notes and comprehension questions, makes this an ideal resource for learning, reviewing or re-entering Greek. The focus of this resource is on reading with understanding, and the exercises highlight how Greek texts convey meaning. Finally, this book moves on from first-year Greek, with sections that cover the most important advanced topics thoroughly.

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Genitive case and the typology of case marking

Cynthia L. Allen · Oxford University Press eBooks · 2008

This chapter outlines the theoretical orientation of the book and the rationale for a new study. The nature of the genitive case is examined and the use of typology in historical syntax is discussed. The methodology of the book is outlined.

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Does the Genitive Operate in the Hungarian Case System?: I. The é-Genitive

Robert Bielecki · Lingua Posnaniensis · 2010

Does the Genitive Operate in the Hungarian Case System?: I. The é -Genitive After three centuries of discussion concerning the genitive case in Hungarian, the authors of the latest academic grammars - in contrast to many of their predecessors - no longer distinguish this casal category. Different cases in Hungarian should, according to them, be distinguished only on the basis of their forms (endings). Such an extreme unilateral approach to this category seems to have simplified at first sight the description of the Hungarian language, erasing from it any case syncretism. From the point of the view defended in the present paper, however, talking about linguistic entities without taking into account their meaning is illusory; even in the case of meaningless speech segments such as phonemes it is the meaning of the segments in which they occur that constitutes the ultimate instance allowing them to be distinguished at all. The same applies to case. The moderate approach to the category of case adopted here, taking simultaneously into account its (i) morphological, (ii) semantic and (iii) syntactic properties, leads irrevocably to the restoration of the genitive in the description of the Hungarian language. As a specific feature of this language one should consider the sharp distinction between two subclasses of the genitive case: (i) the non-attributive ( é -genitive) and (ii) the attributive genitive ( Ø-/nak-/nek -genitive). Only the first of these (the é -genitive) will be discussed in detail. The second (the Ø-/nak-/nek -genitive) will be the subject of a continuation of the present paper. Recognition of the é -genitive seems to have been blocked by those of its properties which seem to be quite incongruous with those of other Hungarian cases. It is claimed, for example, that the marker - é - unlike the markers of other cases - seems not to express any syntagmatic function. This function is expressed by the case marker attached after the morpheme - é ( A diákét (láttam) '(I saw) The student's one'). In the view of the author, however, the lack of syntagmatic function in the case of the morpheme - é is not so obvious. On the other hand, such "discrediting" properties for a case marker candidate, as the property of not occupying the final morphotactical position ( diákét ), can be viewed as entirely irrelevant for the category of case. The adopted approach seems to make possible a description of this fragment of the Hungarian case system from a more homogenous perspective, showing the interplay of different casal meanings within the boundaries of one word.

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Genitive case and the Germanic languages: Overview

Cynthia L. Allen · Oxford University Press eBooks · 2008

This chapter surveys possessive markers in the modern Germanic languages and looks at the Common Germanic background relevant to the remainder of the book.

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Genitive Case in Kurdish and English Language

Aryan Sdiq Aziz, Nali Adham Ghairb, Chia Karim Karim et al. · Journal of Linguistics and Social Sciences · 2024

Linguistic and grammatical correctness, both in their production and when they are categorized under specialized grammar, involve numerous features unique to each language and the technical intricacies of its grammar. One such feature encompasses processes related to the genitive case, encompassing the nuanced details of genitive attribution, possession, indicators of possession, and the presence or absence of these indicators in their respective contexts. This research delves into the Genitive Case in Kurdish and English, elucidating their positions, commonalities, and distinctions. The methodology employed throughout this study is primarily analytical and comparative, wherein initial observations and insights about the phenomenon are presented, followed by a thorough analysis and demonstration of the genitive case in both Kurdish and English grammar.

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Multiple Case Checking in English Genitive DPs

하승완 · Studies in Generative Grammar · 2015

D may involve multiple case checking, which is observed in cross-linguistic data. It is well-known, on the other hand, that English is a type of language that disallows multiple case checking. In this paper, I will present a case where D appears to check case more than one time in English ? the one that involves genitive constructions. I will argue that the multiple case checking phenomenon is misleading, and that D is splitted into two functional categories ? i.e. D and Kase (K) ? in genitive constructions. Under the current approach, K bears an uninterpretable case feature (i.e. [ucase:gen*]) responsible for checking genitive case within DPs. On top of KP, D is projected, bearing another unvalued case feature that is subject to agree with a case assigner in a clause. The current analysis can capture the general fact that D is only allowed to check case once in English and resolve the puzzle of the seemingly multiple case checking phenomenon in genitive constructions.

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