Genetivus subiectivus

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The genetivus subiectivus is a function of the genitive in which the word in the genitive expresses the subject of the action expressed by its governing noun . The genetivus subjectivus is common in various languages, for example in Latin , German , Arabic and Hittite .

The counterpart to the genetivus subiectivus is the genetivus obiectivus .

Examples

German

  • The gait of a horse → The horse walks.
  • The writings of the philosopher → The philosopher wrote.
  • The description of the woman → The woman has described something. (Depending on the context, this can also be interpreted as genetivus objectivus : the woman has been described.)
  • lat. opinio patris 'the opinion of the father' → The father means.
  • Latin amor patris 'the love of the father' → The father loves. (genetivus subjectivus) or: The father is loved. ( genetivus objectivus )

literature

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

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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