{"title":"The Role of Gender in Postcolonial Syntactic Choice-Making","authors":"S. Gries, B. Heller, Nina Funke","doi":"10.1017/9781108696739.006","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"There is a rich history of research on the English genitive alternation (Rosenbach ; also Chapter ), the choice between the s-genitive and the of-genitive. The two options differ mainly in two respects: the ordering and linking of two constituents. In the s-genitive as in (a), the possessor (Sri Lanka) precedes the possessum (self-interest), whereas it follows the possessum (image) in the of-genitive as in (b). To indicate the genitive relation between the constituents, the clitic ’s (or simply ’ with plurals) is added to the possessor phrase in s-genitives, whereas in of-genitives, constituents are connected by the preposition of. Additionally, the definite article is not explicitly stated in s-genitives (since ’s has a deterministic function), so if we wanted to transform (a) into an of-genitive, we would have to add it (i.e. the self-interest of Sri Lanka).","PeriodicalId":443977,"journal":{"name":"Gender in World Englishes","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Gender in World Englishes","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108696739.006","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
There is a rich history of research on the English genitive alternation (Rosenbach ; also Chapter ), the choice between the s-genitive and the of-genitive. The two options differ mainly in two respects: the ordering and linking of two constituents. In the s-genitive as in (a), the possessor (Sri Lanka) precedes the possessum (self-interest), whereas it follows the possessum (image) in the of-genitive as in (b). To indicate the genitive relation between the constituents, the clitic ’s (or simply ’ with plurals) is added to the possessor phrase in s-genitives, whereas in of-genitives, constituents are connected by the preposition of. Additionally, the definite article is not explicitly stated in s-genitives (since ’s has a deterministic function), so if we wanted to transform (a) into an of-genitive, we would have to add it (i.e. the self-interest of Sri Lanka).
关于英语属格交替的研究历史悠久(Rosenbach;还有第14章,s格和of格的选择。这两个选项主要在两个方面有所不同:两个成分的顺序和链接。在(a)的s-格中,所有人(斯里兰卡)位于所有人(自利)之前,而在(b)的of-格中,它位于所有人(形象)之后。为了表明组成成分之间的属格关系,在s型格中,形容词“s”(或复数形式的“s”)加在物主短语后面,而在of型格中,组成成分用介词“of”连接。此外,定冠词没有明确地以s-格表示(因为' s '具有确定性功能),所以如果我们想将(a)转换为of-格,我们必须添加它(即斯里兰卡的自利)。