Talk:Genitive construction

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The title of this page should be "Attributive construction" since "Genitive construction" implies a Genitive case, which is not the case in all languages. The term "Attributive construction" is more neutral from this respect. In the same vein, the article should be merged with the article "attributive". Waiting for comments before doing it myself... בוקי סריקי (talk) 10:22, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

I agree. Also, shouldn't another option be simply listing the nouns one after the other (e.g. English "soccer field") or as one word (e.g. English "toothbrush")? --AndreRD (talk) 02:13, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

I DISAGREE. The Wikipedia criteria for the titles of articles WP:TITLE do not demand that the article give the technically best title. Wikipedia is a tool for the non-expert, and I think that most readers would search for the information in this article under a title using the word "genitive" rather than "attributive". I may note also that there are other uses of the genitive (or possessive) other than as an attributive. And one must be aware that there may be articles which refer to the present title, and change those references. For those who are searching about the attributive, their needs can be met simply by using a redirect to the present title. As far as the observation that languages use such devices as concatenation or forming a new word, I do not see how a change of title can address that. It is just a matter that should be mentioned as alternatives to the genitive that a language can use to express an attributive. TomS TDotO (talk) 08:05, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

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False claim in section - Using the "his genitive"

The claim in the second sentence of this section is wrong, stating the following: "It is common in spoken German, e.g. dem Mann sein Haus "the man's house" (literally "to the man, his house")." I am German myself, I do not use this construction nor do I encounter this in daily life and I am speaking the standard German dialect as my standard dialect. This is either a construction in a regiolect or dialect, perhaps more used in the south of Germany or Ruhr area. I would suggest this alternative: "In some dialects of German there are such constructions possible, e.g. dem Mann sein Haus "the man's house" (literally "to the man, his house")." or something more well phrased by an English speaker than my try. Greetings -178.6.43.81 (talk) 03:25, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Double genitive substandard?

Really? "A friend of mine/John's"? Jackaroodave (talk) 22:24, 23 October 2019 (UTC)