Germanic Genitives.

Intro -- Germanic Genitives -- Editorial page -- Germanic Genitives -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Genitives in Germanic -- Contributions to this volume -- Acknowledgements -- References -- A new perspective on the Luxembourgish genitive -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Characterizing the Luxembourgish language and data -- 3. Preliminary remarks -- 4. Genitive constructions in Luxembourgish -- 4.1 Attributes -- 4.2 Genitive complements of verbs and adjectives -- 4.3 Prepositions -- 4.4 Adverbials -- 4.5 Family names -- 4.6 Partitives -- 5. Summary -- Acknowledgements -- Internet sources -- Sources -- References -- Frisian genitives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The genitive in Old Frisian -- 3. Possessive use of the former genitival endings -- 4. The redistribution of the former strong and weak genitival endings -- 4.1 Gametonyms in West Frisian -- 4.2 Patronyms in Fering-Öömrang -- 5. Reanalysis of prenominal genitives -- 5.1 Genitive compounds in West Frisian -- 5.2 Geographical adjectives and inhabitant names in North Frisian -- 5.3 The genitive of family names in West Frisian -- 6. Recycling of the former genitival endings -- 6.1 The ending -s as a countability marker in Fering-Öömrang -- 6.2 The ending -s in temporal adverbs in West Frisian -- 7. Literary use of the genitive -- 8. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- On the motivation of genitive‑s omission in Contemporary German -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Which words are affected by ‑s omission in Contemporary German? -- 3. Why are only peripheral nouns affected by ‑s omission? -- 4. The impact of ‑s on the recognition of peripheral nouns -- 5. Morphological integration of loanwords -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Corpora -- Sources -- References -- From genitive suffix to linking element -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Phenomenon and corpora.

3. Study 1: Nominal constructions in Early New High German - from genitive attribute to compound -- 4. Study 2: Measuring productivity of compounding patterns -- 5. Study 3: Persisting syntactic properties -- 6. Summary and conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Corpora -- References -- The development of non-paradigmatic linking elements in Faroese and the decline of the genitive case -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The decline of the genitive case in Faroese -- Anchor 58 -- 2.2 The functional decline of the synthetic genitive -- 3. Linking elements in Faroese -- 3.1 Formal dissociation from the inflectional endings -- 3.2 The functional dissociation of linking elements: The development of new functions -- 3.3 The development of syllabic conditioning of + ar + and + a + -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- The Genitive Rule and its background -- 1. Genitive and visibility -- 2. DP/NP-internal feature distribution in German -- 2.1 Obscure case forms -- 2.2 Main and secondary feature bearers -- 3. The interaction of visibility and feature distribution -- 3.1 Compulsory and optional substitutive constructions -- 3.2 Overview of the following discussion -- 4. The expected behavior -- Unexpected behavior I -- 5.1 Pronouns with genitive marker -es -- 5.2 Recurring genitive phrases -- 6. Unexpected behavior II -- 6.1 Prestigious prepositions -- 6.2 Proper nouns -- 6.3 Derivations from geographical proper names with suffix -er -- 6.4 Some other constructions -- 7. The Genitive Rule and the tendency to redundancy-free inflection -- 7.1 Loss of the genitive ending of nouns -- 7.2 Determiners: Weak vs. strong endings -- 7.3 The preference against case forms of nouns -- 8. Conlusion -- Acknowledgements -- Sources -- References -- From genitive inflection to possessive marker? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Morphology: The case declension of personal names -- 2.1 Synchrony.

2.2 Diachrony -- 2.3 Why are personal names prone to deflexion? - Animacy versus scheme constancy -- 3. (Morpho-)Syntax: "Genitive" constructions with personal names -- 3.1 Where does the -s occur? -- 3.1.1 Grammars -- 3.1.2 Corpus data (DECOW) -- 3.2 Proposed formal analyses for German possessive -s -- 4. The status of ‑s - genitive inflection or clitic marker? -- 4.1 English possessive 's constructions -- 4.2 Synchronic and diachronic empirical data of German -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Yiddish possessives as a case for genitive case -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Yiddish case system -- 3. The morphosyntactic status of the Yiddish possessive marker -- 3.1 Prenominal possessor constructions in Fribourg German -- 3.2 The properties of Yiddish prenominal possessors -- 3.2.1 Selectional restrictions -- 3.2.2 Morphological marking -- 3.2.3 Type of placement -- 3.3 Summary and analysis -- 4. Some remarks on the diachrony of Yiddish possessive marking -- 4.1 Prenominal possessors in the Tsenerene -- 4.2 A diachronic scenario -- 4.3 Summary -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Primary sources -- References -- Genitives and proper name compounds in German -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Genitives and compounds: Morphological and syntactic properties -- 2.1 Genitives -- 2.2 Compounds -- 3. Genitives and compounds: Semantic properties -- 4. Semantic overlap between proper name compounds and genitives -- 5. Restrictions on proper name compounding -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- On the role of cases and possession in Germanic -- 1. Introduction - road map -- 2. Structural vs. non-structural cases -- 3. On the history and hierarchy of cases -- 3.1 On the nature of cases in Germanic -- 3.2 Polyfunctionality -- 4. Inflectional morphology and semantic markedness -- 4.1 Inflectional marking -- 4.2 Reflexivity in pronominal systems.

5. Morphological transparency, emphasis and periphrastic constructions -- 5.1 Morphological marking -- 5.2 The emergence of a new morphological marker in Faroese -- 5.3 More transparency through prepositional phrases -- 6. Genitival and periphrastic constructions, seen from a typological perspective -- 6.1 Typological differences between West and North Germanic -- 6.2 Restrictions within genitive NPs -- 7. Branching and weight in genitival noun phrases -- 7.1 Left branching and group genitives -- 7.2 Right branching and possession -- 8. Conclusions -- 8.1 On the helix in language history („Vom Spirallauf der Sprachgeschichte") -- 8.2 Overlapping grammatical functions and their consequences -- 8.2.1 Grammatical overspecification and linguistic complexity -- 8.2.2 Grammatical underspecification -- 8.3 Progress in language evolution? -- Acknowledgements -- Primary sources -- References -- Index.

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