TY  - CHAP
A1  - Vezzosi, Letizia
T1  - John his book vs. John's book : possession marking in English
T2  - Papers on language change and language acquisition, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 2000; ZAS papers in linguistics Vol. 15
N2  - The unusual development of the PDE [present-day English] s-genitive can be historically motivated, if the 's form is supposed to be not a mere leftover of the Old English (henceforth OE) casemarking, but the outcome of the merging of two patterns: the inflectional genitive ending (levelled to -s) and the construction "John his book" (henceforth 'possessive-linked genitive') during the Middle and the Early Modem English phases.
As my corpus analysis will show, the semantic and syntactic constraints ruling the occurrence of the 's pattern in the time interval of the rise of the 's-pattern (1400 - 1650) are the same ones as those ruling the occurrence of the possessive-linked genitive.
This hypothesis is further confirmed by cross-language comparison (with the other West Germanic languages, especially Afrikaans).
KW  - Englisch
KW  - Markiertheit
KW  - Genitiv
KW  - Flexion
Y1  - 2000
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/30717
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-307178
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/211.html
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 15
SP  - 168
EP  - 198
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
CY  - Berlin
ER  -