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The Gothic Genitive Plural in -ē Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2008

Kenneth Shields Jr
Kenneth Shields Jr
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Department of EnglishMillersville UniversityMillersville, PA 17551 [kshields@marauder.millersv.edu]
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In this brief paper it is proposed that the problematic Gothic genitive plural suffix in -ē may derive from a grammaticalized deictic particle. Typological and specifically Indo-European evidence for the derivation of genitive markers from deictic particles is presented in support of this hypothesis.

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Journal of Germanic Linguistics , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , Fall 1997, pp. 239 - 249
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Copyright © Society for Germanic Linguistics 1997

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