Saxon genitive

plural Saxon genitives

1. human sciencesA genitive construction in English formed with the possessive clitic -'s.

   It is against euphony to make two genitives of the same form follow each other, particularly when they are Saxon genitives.

   1871, A. J. Mertens, A Complete English Grammar, page 71

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   First, not all Saxon genitives can be paraphrased with have: many subjective and objective nominalizations (the boy's escape, the boy's release), genitives of origin (the boy's letter), genitives of measure (ten days' absence), and many genitives with non-human reference points (today's paper, next year's profits, duty's call, the poll's results) do not have analogous uses with have (*The boy has an escape, *The boy has a release...).

   1997, Ewa Dąbrowska, Cognitive Semantics and the Polish Dative, page 149