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Current trends in analyzing syntactic variation
Edited by Ludovic De Cuypere, Clara Vanderschueren and Gert de Sutter
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics 31] 2017
► pp. 56–75

Language variation and change

A case study of the loss of genitive case in (Heritage) Greek

| Humboldt Universität zu Berlin & Leibniz – Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) |
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Heritage Greek
    • 2.1Data collection
    • 2.2Genitive case in heritage Greek
  • 3.The loss of genitive in SMG
    • 3.1General remarks on the Greek genitive
    • 3.2What caused the loss of genitive in Greek diachrony?
    • 3.3Alternative realizations of possession
    • 3.4A comparison with Old French
  • 4.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 23 April 2018
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