Linguistic Typology and the Demise of Morphological Case: The Development of the Genitive in the Germanic Languages

语言类型学与形态格的消亡：日耳曼语中所有格的发展。该项目将研究日耳曼语言的大小写标记系统的变化如何影响最初由属格编码的关系的表达。将收集有关荷兰语和英语变化的新数据。然后，调查将扩展到其他日耳曼语言。该项目的一个主要目的是提供一个案例研究，说明密切相关的语言在经历从一种总体类型的类似转变时，是如何显著分化的？另一方面，增加了我们对人类语言能力在语言跨代传播中所允许的变化的理解。

Linguistic Typology and the Demise of Morphological Case: The Development of the Genitive in the Germanic Languages. This project will investigate how changes to the case marking systems of the Germanic languages affected the expression of the relationships originally encoded by genitive case. New data will be gathered concerning changes in Dutch and English. The investigation will then be extended to the other Germanic languages. A primary aim of the project is to present a case study of how closely related languages can diverge significantly while undergoing a similar shift from one overall ?type? to another, adding to our understanding of what sort of changes the human language capability allows in the transmission of language across generations.