Publications

Publication details [#61686]

Biber, Douglas, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Jesse Egbert and Karlien Franco. 2016. Toward more accountability: Modeling ternary genitive variation in Late Modern English. Language Variation and Change 28 (1) : 1–29.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

corpus analysis | genitive | grammar1 | historical linguistics | register

Language as a subject

English, Late Modern

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

The Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers (1650-2000) is used to trace variable genitive grammar's real time development, which shows a general shift to choose noun-noun (NN)-genitives over other variants (the s- and of-genitive) when basic noun phrases are short, owner elements lifeless, and possessum components thematic.