Table of contents
Portraits of lesser studied languages
13
A new perspective on the Luxembourgish genitive
15
Frisian genitives: From Old Frisian to the modern dialects
37
Genitive markers and their destinies
63
On the motivation of genitive‑s omission in Contemporary German
65
From genitive suffix to linking element: A corpus study on the genesis and productivity of a new compounding pattern in (Early) New High German
91
The development of non-paradigmatic linking elements in Faroese and the decline of the genitive case
115
‘Genitives’ in nominal configurations
147
The Genitive Rule and its background
149
From genitive inflection to possessive marker? The development of German possessive ‑s with personal names
189
Yiddish possessives as a case for genitive case
231
Genitives and their functional competitors
173
Genitives and proper name compounds in German
275
On the role of cases and possession in Germanic: A typological approach
301
Index
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