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The Danish Possessive Prepositional Construction in Comparison with the s-Genitive

Alicja Piotrowska
Scandinavian Studies, October 2024, 96 (4) 121-153; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/sca.96.4.121
Alicja Piotrowska
Alicja Piotrowska is an Assistant Professor of Scandinavian linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan. She has published monographs and articles on the history and linguistic variation of Scandinavian languages, including Variation in Nominal Possessive Expressions (Brill, 2024).
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