Possessive Form of Nouns and English Subjective Nouns

This article argues that the possessive form of English nouns of non-living things tends to correlate with the subjectivity of nouns. The subjectivity is likely to be a multi-leveled phenomenon. Though naming non-living things, some group of nouns are quasi-subjective that brings them to adopt a pos...

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Main Authors: A B Kostromin, O G Gorbatenko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2015-12-01
Series:Russian Language Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.rudn.ru/russian-language-studies/article/view/9896