• Contents
  • Index
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  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The historical distribution of s-genitives and of-genitives
  • 3 Factors that influence the choice of-genitives
    • 3.1 Semantic and pragmatic factors
      • 3.1.1 Animacy
      • 3.1.2 Text frequency of the possessor head
      • 3.1.3 Givenness
      • 3.1.4 Possessive relation
    • 3.2 Phonological factors
      • 3.2.1 Final sibilant in the possessor
    • 3.3 Factors related to processing and parsing
      • 3.3.1 Weight
      • 3.3.2 Persistence
    • 3.4 Economy-related factors
      • 3.4.1 Type-token ratio
      • 3.4.2 "Nouniness"
  • 4 Hierarchy of the influence of factors
  • 5 Conclusion
  • References