| Автор | ROSENBACH, ANETTE |
| Дата выпуска | 2007 |
| dc.description | This article discusses the emerging variation between determiner genitives and noun modifiers in Present-day English. Based on the results of corpus analyses and previous studies I show that this variation (1) was not present in earlier English, and (2) results from the fact that determiner genitives have come to be used with nouns low in animacy while noun modifiers have come to be used with nouns high in animacy (mainly) in the course of Modern English. This semantic shift (or rather ‘convergence’) of genitives and noun modifiers has helped to create contexts which are compatible with both determiner and classifier function, i.e. the functions typically expressed by determiner genitives and noun modifiers, respectively. The article complements earlier work on the gradience between s-genitive constructions and noun+noun constructions (Rosenbach, 2006a), providing fur-ther evidence for the claim that semantic overlap may give rise to constructional gradience. |
| Издатель | Cambridge University Press |
| Название | Emerging variation: determiner genitives and noun modifiers in EnglishIʼm grateful to Masha Koptjevskaja-Tamm for many discussions on the topic, to the two ELL referees for valuable suggestions, and to editor David Denison for his meticulous comments and exceptional editorial support. The research presented in this article was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (grants Ro 2408/2-1 and Ro 2408/2-2). |
| DOI | 10.1017/S1360674306002140 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1469-4379 |
| Print ISSN | 1360-6743 |
| Журнал | English Language and Linguistics |
| Том | 11 |
| Первая страница | 143 |
| Последняя страница | 189 |
| Аффилиация | ROSENBACH ANETTE; Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf |
| Выпуск | 1 |
