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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
2015-12-01
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Series: | Russian Language Studies |
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Online Access: | http://journals.rudn.ru/russian-language-studies/article/view/9896 |