This contribution deals with some cases of prepositionless genitive in Romance and with their import for a general theory of Genitive assignment. Romance prepositionless genitives (so-called N+N compounds, Old French Juxtaposition Genitive, less known instances of Old Italian Juxtaposition Genitives, and Romance construct state) question the alleged complementarity between prepositional genitives and overt synthetic genitive morphology, according to which the loss of synthetic genitive morphology necessarily involves the recourse to the prepositional mode of genitive assignment
Towards a diachronic theory of genitive assignment in Romance
DELFITTO, Denis;
2009-01-01
Abstract
This contribution deals with some cases of prepositionless genitive in Romance and with their import for a general theory of Genitive assignment. Romance prepositionless genitives (so-called N+N compounds, Old French Juxtaposition Genitive, less known instances of Old Italian Juxtaposition Genitives, and Romance construct state) question the alleged complementarity between prepositional genitives and overt synthetic genitive morphology, according to which the loss of synthetic genitive morphology necessarily involves the recourse to the prepositional mode of genitive assignment
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