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double genitive — noun Date: 1824 a syntactic construction in English in which possession is marked both by the preposition of and a noun or pronoun in the possessive case (as in “A friend of Bob s is a friend of mine”) called also double possessive … New Collegiate Dictionary
double genitive — dou′ble gen′itive n. gram. double possessive … From formal English to slang
double genitive — noun : double possessive … Useful english dictionary
double genitive. — See double possessive … Useful english dictionary
Genitive case — In grammar, the genitive case or possessive case (also called the second case ) is the case that marks a noun as modifying another noun. It often marks a noun as being the possessor of another noun but it can also indicate various relationships… … Wikipedia
double possessive — noun : a syntactic construction in English consisting of the preposition of followed by a noun in the possessive case (as of Bill s in a friend of Bill s) or by a possessive pronoun (as of mine in this brain of mine) and having the same meaning… … Useful english dictionary
double possessive — noun see double genitive … New Collegiate Dictionary
double possessive — Gram. a possessive construction consisting of a prepositional phrase with of containing a substantive in the possessive case, as of father s in He is a friend of father s. Also called double genitive. * * * … Universalium
double possessive — dou′ble posses′sive n. gram. a possessive construction consisting of a prepositional phrase with of containing a substantive in the possessive case, as of father s in She is a friend of father s Also called double genitive … From formal English to slang
Double-marking language — Linguistics … Wikipedia
