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Genitives

Index of SIL publications on Genitives listed by country.

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General works

• FRANTZ, Chester I., author. 1964. Genitives.
• HILL, Ralph, author. 1978. A semantic analysis of the adnominal genitive construction in James.
• LOOS, Eugene E., author. 1975. Three different predicate relationships that underlie some surface structure possessives in English.
• PAYNE, David L., author. 1987. "Some morphological elements of Maipuran Arawakan: agreement affixes and the genitive construction."
• TAYLOR, John M., author. 1964. Notes on the Greek genitive.

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Sudan

• KILPATRICK, Eileen, author. 1984. "Use of genitives in Avokaya."

Americas

Brazil

• KOEHN, Sally S., author. 1994. "The use of generic terms in Apalaí genitive constructions."

Venezuela

• CARLSON, Robert; PAYNE, Doris L., authors. 1989. "Genitive classifiers."

Asia

Indonesia

• MCDONNELL, Bradley, author. 2006. "Possessive structures in Ende: a language of Eastern Indonesia."  

Philippines

• REID, Lawrence A., author. 1981. "Proto-Austronesian genitive determiners."

Pacific

Australia

• GEYTENBEEK, Helen, author. 1976. A classification of the adnominal genitives of 1 Peter.

Micronesia

• CARLSON, Robert; PAYNE, Doris L., authors. 1989. "Genitive classifiers."