DOES MODERN CHINESE ALLOW GENITIVE SUBJECTS?

The Early Modern Genitive Its and Factors Involved in Genitive Variation

This article explores the variation between the emergent genitive its and the periphrastic form of it in Early Modern English, situating this case in the larger picture of English genitive variation. As previous studies have often focused on non-pronominal possessors (given that Present Day English pronominal possessors often appear prenominally, with limited variation), this early pronominal g...

On the distribution of the genitive attribute and its prepositional counterpart in Modern Standard German

Genitive and of-construction in modern written English. Processability and human involvement*

On the basis of 698 instances of Saxon genitive and of-construction, the present paper explores the use of these modifiers from a corpus-linguistic perspective. In particular, the influence of the lexical class of the modifier, the semantic relationship expressed by the constructions, and weight and syntactic complexity is analysed. It will be argued that the variation of genitive and of-constr...

Computing Genitive Superlatives

Superlative expressions (such as “the tallest boy”) single out entities by comparing them to others with respect to a set of properties. Therefore, a proper semantics for a superlative expression requires a correct computation of the comparison set. In most of the cases, this can be done in a compositional fashion (leaving contextual influences aside). When superlative adjectives occur in preno...

Does Modern Management Increase Inequality?

This paper examines whether modern management, characterized by performance and target based practices, explains the recent rise in wage inequality. I hypothesize that modern management’s shift to performance pay, management-skill complementarity, and managementtechnology complementarity contribute to the increase in wage inequality within establishments. The period after the Asian Financial Cr...