Saxon genitive

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A genitive construction in English formed with the possessive clitic -'s.
    — It is against euphony to make two genitives of the same form follow each other, particularly when they are Saxon genitives.

词形变化

Saxon genitives plural

词源

So named because the possessive was one of the only productive relics of the Anglo-Saxon declensional system.
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