genitivepluralism
Genitive pluralism is a term used in linguistics to describe the variation across languages in how genitive plurality is expressed. It concerns the range of strategies languages use to mark possession or relational meaning when the referent is plural, rather than assuming a single universal method.
In typological terms, genitive plural marking can be realized in several ways. Some languages employ inflectional
Cross-linguistic patterns illustrate the diversity. German, for example, uses an inflected genitive plural on a noun
Genitive pluralism is of interest for morphology, syntax, and historical linguistics because it sheds light on