Meaning of Saxon genitive | Babel Free

Definitions

A genitive construction in English formed with the possessive clitic -'s.

Examples

“It is against euphony to make two genitives of the same form follow each other, particularly when they are Saxon genitives.”

“First, not all Saxon genitives can be paraphrased with have: many subjective and objective nominalizations (the boy's escape, the boy's release), genitives of origin (the boy's letter), genitives of measure (ten days' absence), and many genitives with non-human reference points (today's paper, next year's profits, duty's call, the poll's results) do not have analogous uses with have (*The boy has an escape, *The boy has a release...).”

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