Leipzig fourmille de typologues: Genitive objects in comparison (2008) (original) (raw)

This paper examines the occurrence and function of genitive objects in several European languages, including German, English, Latin, French, and Italian. It argues that while genitive markers can serve as verbal arguments, their semantic uniformity is not guaranteed across these languages. Through a comparative approach, the study addresses the rarity of genitive objects in the world’s languages and investigates their syntactic and semantic characteristics, exploring the historical and modern implications of this grammatical phenomenon.