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English Genitives Derived from Predications: Implications for Teaching English as a Second Language.
MacLeish, Andrew – RELC Journal, A Journal of English Language Teaching in Southeast Asia, 1970
This paper attempts to demonstrate the concept and method of deriving various English "true possessives" by nominalizing sentences of the form "X has Y." First considered is the motivation for deriving genetives from underlying sentences rather than for treating only the surface form of such genitives: the use of auxiliary…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, English (Second Language), Language Universals
