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his genitive
The his genitive is a means of forming a genitive construction by linking two nouns with a possessive pronoun such as "his" (e.g. "my friend his car" instead of "my friend's car"). This construction enjoyed only a brief heyday in English in the late 16th century and the 17th century, but is common in some of the dialects of a number of Germanic languages, and standard in Afrikaans.
==In English==
In Early Modern English, the orthographic practice developed of marking the genitive case by inserting the word "his" between the possessor noun, especially where it ended in ''-s'', and the following possessed noun. The heyday of this construction, employed by John Lyly, ''Euphues His England'' (1580), in the travel accounts under the title ''Purchas His Pilgrimes'' (1602), Ben Jonson's ''Sejanus His Fall'' (1603) or John Donne's ''Ignatius His Conclave'' (1611), was the late 16th and early 17th century.〔Elizabeth S. Sklar, "The Possessive Apostrophe: The Development and Decline of a Crooked Mark" ''College English'' 38.2 (October 1976, pp. 175-183) p 176. Sklar notes, for a survey of genitive formation in the 16th century, Bastiaan den Breejen, ''The Genitive and its Of-Equivalent in the Latter Half of the Sixteenth Century'' (Amsterdam N.V. Paris) 1937.〕 For example, in 1622, the Holy Roman Emperor's ambassador in London "ran at tilt in the Prince his company with Lord Montjoy".〔''Dictionary of National Biography'', s.v. "Mountjoy Blount".〕 The term "his genitive" may refer either to marking genitives with "his" as a reflexive or intensifying marker or, much more precisely, the practice of using "his" ''instead of'' an -s. Therefore, use of the "his" genitive in writing occurred throughout later Middle English and early Modern English as an intensifier, but as a replacement marker only for a brief time.
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