This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Starting from the failure of possessives and genitives to co-occur with restrictive relative clauses and other post-nominal restrictive ...

Deor uses some idiosyncratic genitive cases in the refrain that is repeated six times in the poem. This paper attempts to determine a correct syntactic analysis of the sentence containing the ...

“I don’t stay up nights worrying,” said John Lennon in 1965. “Summers I used to cover Missouri,” wrote Thornton Wilder in 1934. “I went over there afternoons,” wrote Ernest Hemingway in 1929. Why do ...

The use of the apostrophe with nouns to show ownership (Saxon Genitive?) has always puzzled me. I haven't been able to find a convincing rule in any of the grammar or usage books where I've checked.

Learning Irish can be a bit difficult at the start, until you break through a certain barrier or threshold of understanding, and after that point everything can become easy. The process can be good ...