Lecture
Genitive Variation in English
Spoken Late Modern English in the 18th Century
This is a work-in-progress presentation of my MA thesis on genitive variation in English.
My MA thesis explores genitive variation in spoken Late Modern English in the 18th century. Genitive variation is the variable of main interest in recent research on syntactic alternations in English (Rosenbach 2014: 215). While there exists ternary alternation, my thesis excludes noun-noun structures and only focuses on the binary and interchangeable choice between the inflective