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1. Introduction (by Borjars, Kersti); 2. Dealing with postmodified possessors in early English: Split and group genitives (by Allen, Cynthia L.); 3. Variation in the form and function of the possessive morpheme in Late Middle and Early Modern English (by Juvonen, Teo); 4. The great regression: Genitive variability in Late Modern English news texts (by Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt); 5. Nominal categories and the expression of possession: A cross-linguistic study of probabilistic tendencies and categorical constraints (by O'Connor, Catherine); 6. Expression of possession in English: The significance of the right edge (by Borjars, Kersti); 7. A cognitive analysis of John's hat (by Hudson, Richard A.); 8. The oblique genitive in English (by Payne, John); 9. The marker of the English "Group Genitive" is a special clitic, not an inflection (by Anderson, Stephen R.); 10. Two prenominal possessors in West Flemish (by Haegeman, Liliane); 11. A Mozart sonata and the Palme murder: The structure and uses of proper-name compounds in Swedish (by Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria); 12. Possessive clitics and ezafe in Urdu (by Bogel, Tina); 13. References; 14. Index