The submerged genitive in Old Prussian

This paper is devoted to the Old Prussian phrase ʃwaiāʃmu ʃupʃei buttan ‘to his own house’ (Enchiridion, III 876). Far from being simply the result of a syntactic error, the genitive ʃupʃei ‘of oneself’ can be recognized as the reflex of an archaic syntactic pattern, the “submerged genitive”, which...

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Main Author: Daniel Petit
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Vilnius University Press 2021-07-01
Series:Vilnius University Open Series
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Online Access:https://www.journals.vu.lt/open-series/article/view/24517