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Genitives and the creolization question1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2008

Cynthia L. Allen
Cynthia L. Allen
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Department of Linguistics, the Faculties Australian National UniversityCanberra ACT 0200Australiacindy.allen@anu.edu.
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In a recent squib published in this journal, Juhani Klemola notes that there is ample and well-documented evidence for the loss of the genitive inflection in twentieth-century Northern dialect data as well as in early Modern English and Middle English documents representing Northern dialects.

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English Language & Linguistics , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , May 1998, pp. 129 - 135
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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