The Genitive -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Genitive case and genitive constructions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Genitive semantics -- 3. Genitive marking -- 4. Genitives beyond adnominal functions -- 5. Papers in this volume -- References -- Endnotes -- Part 1. General surveys -- The genitive case and the possessive construction in Finnish -- 1. Introduction1 -- 2. The genitive as a structural case -- 2.1 Preposed NP modifier of a N head -- 2.2 Preposed AP modifier of an A or Adv head -- 2.3 Preposed NP or AP complement to an A head -- 2.4 Preposed NP complement to a P head -- 2.5 NP subject of participial clauses -- 2.6 Direct NP object of certain kinds of VP -- 2.7 Postposed NP modifier of certain types of VP -- 3. The "dative-genitive" issue -- 3.1 The necessive construction -- 3.2 The permissive construction -- 3.3 The experiencer construction -- 3.4 The "dative-genitive" predicate -- 3.5 The loose "dative-genitive" -- 3.6 The historical background -- 4. The possessive construction -- 4.1 Contra inversion -- 4.2 A transformational analysis -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Endnotes -- The Russian genitive within the NP and the VP -- 1. Introduction1 -- 2. Genitive morphology -- 2.1 The marking of the genitive -- 2.2 Genitive/accusative syncretism and animacy -- 2.3 U-genitive vs. a-genitive -- 3. Genitive case within the NP -- 3.1 The adnominal genitive -- 3.2 The genitive of quantification -- 4. Genitive case within the VP -- 4.1 The intensional genitive -- 4.2 The genitive of negation -- 4.3 The partitive genitive -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Endnotes -- Nominal and pronominal possessors in Romanian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The alternation between bare genitives and al-genitives and the status of al -- 2.1 The distribution of bare genitives and al-phrases.

2.2 The analysis of al-phrases -- 2.3 The history of al. From determiner to genitive marker. -- 2.4 The syntax of pronominal possessors -- 3. Feature uniqueness and the choice between agreeing and non-agreeing possessors -- 3.1 Agreeing pronominal possessors are referential expressions -- 3.2 Feature uniqueness and the choice between agreeing and non-agreeing possessors -- 3.3 The morphosyntactic make-up of pronouns -- 3.4 Accounting for the (im)possibility of agreeing pronominal possessors -- References -- Endnotes -- De: A genitive marker in French? -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Is the category of the genitive relevant for Romance languages? -- 1.2 The complex relationship between genitive and ablative in a long-term perspective -- 1.3 Central hypotheses of the paper -- 2. De + NP in Latin -- 2.1 The morpho-syntactic status of the preposition in an evolutionary perspective -- 2.2 De + ablative versus ablative without preposition -- 2.3 Typology8 -- 2.4 Competition between genitive case and "de + ablative" in Latin -- 2.5 Degree of grammaticalization of the preposition de in Latin -- 3. De + NP in Old and Middle French -- 3.1 Typology -- 3.2 Non-prepositional vs. prepositional adnominal complements in Old and Middle French -- 3.3 Degree of grammaticalization of de in Old and Middle French -- 4. De + NP in Modern French -- 4.1 Typology -- 4.2 Competition between "case" and "de + NP" -- 4.3 Degree of grammaticalization of de -- 5. General conclusion -- References -- Endnotes -- The Bantu connective construction -- 1. Introduction1 -- 2. The canonical connective construction -- 3. Departures from the canonical R2 -- 3.1 R2 has adjectival features -- 3.2 R2 has verbal characteristics -- 3.3 R2 is pronominal -- 3.4 Miscellaneous other departures -- 4. Departures from the canonical connective relator -- 4.1 Unconditioned variants -- 4.2 "Amplexives".

4.3 Different relators for different relations -- 4.4 Tense -- 5. Departures from the canonical dependency relations -- 5.1 Dependency reversal: R1 is the attribute -- 5.2 R1 and R2 are coreferential -- 5.3 The connective construction has a non-compositional meaning -- 6. Departures from the canonical R1 -- 6.1 R1 is not a canonical noun -- 6.2 R1 is absent -- 7. Departures from the canonical arrangement of constituents -- 7.1 R1, con and R2 are not adjacent -- 7.2 The order of elements is not R1 con R2 -- 8. Conclusions -- References -- Endnotes -- Part 2. Case studies -- Word order restrictions in adnominal constructions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Topic of the paper and composition of the corpus -- 2.1 Unmodified proper names as pre- or postnominal genitives4 -- 2.2 Corpus -- 2.3 Postnominal genitive versus von-phrase -- 3. Factors excluding variation between pre- and postnominal genitives of proper names -- 3.1 Semantic factors -- 3.2 Syntactic factor: Modification of the head or genitive noun -- 4. Factors hampering variation between pre- and postnominal genitives of proper names -- 4.1 Semantic factor: Agent/patient role expressed by the genitive -- 4.2 Syntactic factors -- 4.3 Pragmatic factor: Information focus and participant identifiability -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Primary Literature -- Secondary Literature -- Endnotes -- Tracing the origins of the Swedish group genitive -- 1. Introduction1 -- 1.1 On genitives and s-genitives -- 1.2 Group genitives -- 1.3 Sources and method -- 1.4 A few notes on textual evidence -- 2. Setting the scene -- 2.1 The Old Swedish case system -- 2.2 Early history of the Swedish genitive -- 3. Genitive NPs with prepositional attributes in the history of Swedish -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 PP's with af 'of' -- 3.3 PP's with i 'in' -- 3.4 Summary -- 4. Discussion and suggestions for further research.

Sources (other than the ones mentioned in Table 1) -- References -- Endnotes -- Floating genitives and possessive framing in Northern Akhvakh -- 1. Introduction1 -- 2. General remarks on Akhvakh morphosyntax -- 2.1 Clause structure -- 2.2 Nouns and noun phrases -- 2.3 Verb inflection -- 3. Genitive formation in Northern Akhvakh -- 3.1 Genitives with and without the genitive suffix ‑ i -- 3.2 Zero-marked genitives -- 3.3 Genitives marked by the suffix ‑ i -- 3.4 Variations in the distribution of the two variants of the genitive -- 4. Attributive genitives and other syntactic uses of genitives in Northern Akhvakh -- 4.1 Attributive genitives -- 4.2 Other syntactic uses of genitives in Northern Akhvakh -- 5. Floating genitives -- 5.1 The notion of floating genitive -- 5.2 Agreement properties and syntactic status of floating genitives -- 5.3 Semantic properties of floating genitives -- 5.4 Possessive predication, a particular case of the floating genitive construction -- 5.5 Conclusion -- 6. The floating genitives of Akhvakh in typological perspective -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Endnotes -- Index.