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Double Genitive

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2008/02/06 - 9:26am

"...a friend of Bill's." (A friend of Bill's what?)

Mark Liberman over at Language Log discusses the double genitive.

Martha Barnette

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2008/02/06 - 11:32am

Thanks for the heads-up on this, dilettante.

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