double genitive
double genitive
nounDefinition of DOUBLE GENITIVE
: a syntactic construction in English in which possession is marked both by the preposition of and a noun or pronoun in the possessive case (as in “A friend of Bob's is a friend of mine”) —called also double possessive
First Known Use of DOUBLE GENITIVE
1824
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