genitive case (Q15063)
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a term
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | genitive case |
a term |
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grammatical case that marks a word as modifying another word, indicating possession, composition, etc.
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GenitiveCase is used to mark the noun whose referent is the possessor of the referent of another noun [Crystal 1980, 161; Hartmann and Stork 1972, 9495,180; Pei and Gaynor 1954, 82,172; Anderson 1985, 185; Fleming 1988, 10].
21 August 2021
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