The Shift from Affix to Clitic in the History of the English Genitive: Evidence from John of Trevisa’s Polychronicon
In this article I address the question of the change in grammatical nature for the English genitive from inflectional affix to clitic. I focus on the rise of the group genitive, a construction in which the mark for possession is not attached to the head of a possessor phrase but to the rightmost el...
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Ediuno. Ediciones de la Universidad de Oviedo
2025-07-01
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