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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