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genitive relative clause
noun or noun phrase is in a POSSESSIVE relation with another noun or noun
phrase in a sentence.
For example, in the German sentence:
Dort drüben ist das Haus des Bürgermeisters.
Over there is the house of the mayor.
the mayor’s house.
in the noun phrase des Bürgermeisters, the article has the inflectional
ending -es and the noun has the inflectional ending -s to show that they
are in the genitive case because they refer to the owner of das Haus.
In the English sentence:
She took my father’s car.
some linguists regard my father’s as an example of the genitive case.
see also CASE 1
genitive relative clause n
also GEN
see NOUN PHRASE ACCESSIBILITY HIERARCHY
genre 1 n
a type of discourse that occurs in a particular setting, that has distinctive
and recognizable patterns and norms of organization and structure, and
that has particular and distinctive communicative functions. For example:
business reports, news broadcasts, speeches, letters, advertisements, etc.
In constructing texts, the writer must employ certain features conventionally
associated with texts from the genre in which he or she is writing.
In reading a text the reader similarly anticipates certain features of the
text based on genre expectations.
genre 2 n
a category of literary writing, such as tragedy, fiction, comedy, etc.
genre analysis n
the study of how language is used in a particular context, such as business
correspondence, legal writing, staff meetings, etc. Genres differ in
that each has a different goal and employs different patterns of structure
and organization to achieve its goals. In the study of written texts genre
analysis studies how writers conventionally sequence material to achieve
particular purposes. This includes the identification of particular types of
schema and how they are realized linguistically.
genre approach n
also genre-based approach
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