Genetivus obiectivus

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The genitive obiectivus is a function of the genitive in which the word in the genitive expresses the object of the action expressed by its ruling noun . The Genetivus obiectivus is common in various languages, for example Latin , German , Arabic and Hittite .

The counterpart to the genetivus obiectivus is the genetivus subiectivus .

Examples

German

  • The slaughter of a horse → The horse is slaughtered.
  • The writer of the scriptures → The scriptures are being written.
  • The fear of the Lord → The Lord is feared. (Depending on the context, this can also be interpreted as genetivus subjectivus : the Lord feels fear.)
  • Latin agri cultura 'The cultivation of the field' → The field is cultivated
  • Latin amor patris 'the love of the father' → The father is loved. (genetivus objectivus) or: The father loves. ( genetivus subjectivus )

literature

Alja Lipavic Oštir, genitive , in: Elke Hentschel (Ed.), Deutsche Grammatik , De Gruyter, Berlin 2010, p. 99 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.prolatein.de "learning page" for Latin
  2. ↑ Matthias Hölzner: Noun valence: corpus-based studies on the realization of German nouns, pp. 30–33 [1]
  3. ↑ Grammar of Classical Arabic, p. 177 [2]
  4. ↑ noun - adjective - pronouns as lexical pronouns as functional heads, Rosemarie Lühr, p. 182 ( Memento of January 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) PDF file, p. 9

Web links

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