1. Lecture 5 Genitive Noun Introduction:
Case is a grammatical category. It
denotes the changes in the form of a
noun or a pronoun showing its
relationship with other words in a
sentence. Modern English have
not a complicated case system like that of
Latin, German or modern Russian.

2. 5.1 Formation, meaning and uses of genitive nouns
1) Formation of genitive nouns
Rules:
(a) ’s singular noun and plural noun which do
not end in –s
Milton’s poems, my mother’s arrival
women’s clothes
(b) ’ plural nouns ending in –s
the girls’ dormitory
a teachers’ college

3. (c) In compound nouns or a postmodified
noun phrase, the genitive endings is
added to the end of the compound or to
the end of the noun phrase.
eg. My mother-in-law’s death
an hour and a half’s talk
somebody else’s opinion
[the teacher of music]’s room

4. (d) Coordinate nouns
genitive marker to each element when denoting respective possession, and to the last element when denoting common possession
eg. Mary’s and Bob’s books
Mary and Bob’s books(两人共有的书）

5. (e) “noun phrase + appositive”
the genitive ending is added to the end of the appositive, or both to the end of the noun phrase and to the appositive
eg. Basel the bookseller’s
Basel’s, the bookseller’s

6. (f) In personal names ending in sibilant /z/,
the genitive ending can either be ’s or an
apostrophe only, but it can only be ’s
when personal names end in other
sibilant sounds.
eg. Dickens’ / Dickens’s
Marx’s, Ross’s

7. 2) Meanings of genitive nouns
Possessive genitive
Subjective genitive
Objective genitive

8. Genitive of origin
Descriptive genitive
Genitive of time, distance, measure, value, etc

9. 3) Uses of genitive nouns
Genitive nouns are mostly used as
central determiners and therefore
Perform the same function as
“possessive determiners”.

10. 5.2 Independent genitive and double genitive
A genitive noun can sometimes be used independently, that is, without a following noun. This use of the genitive may be termed as the independent genitive.

11. 2) Double genitive
An independent genitive can sometimes be used as prepositional complementation. The prepositional phrase that takes an independent genitive as complementation is called “double genitive”.

12. Exercise in the Textbook
Assignment
Exercise in the Textbook