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The prepositive adnominal genitive in baltic, balto-finnic and scandinavian languages: a historical survey

Terje Mathiassen

Abstrak

The article deals with the parallel preposited adnominal non-partitive genitive in Bal­tic, Balto-Finnic and Scandinavian languages from the point of view of diachrony, areal linguistics and language typology where the latter perspective is based mostly on Greenberg's language universals. Data from Scandinavian historical syntax (Braunmüller's stu­dies in word order) reveal a far more complex picture concerning the historical roots of the preposited genitive in the Nordic languages than one can observe from the smooth surface of to-day's Swedish, Danish and Norwegian which corresponds so neatly with the Baltic and Balto-Finnic languages with respect to the phenomenon in question.

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Terje Mathiassen

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Mathiassen, T. (2026). The prepositive adnominal genitive in baltic, balto-finnic and scandinavian languages: a historical survey. https://doi.org/10.15388/baltistica.28.2.247

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Tahun Terbit
2026
Bahasa
en
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CrossRef
DOI
10.15388/baltistica.28.2.247
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