In this paper I present several corpus linguistic studies that show the
continuity of the diachronic loss of the German genitive within novellas from the past
two centuries Moreover I found that not all genitive constructions are diachronically
receding and that e.g the adnominal genitive is particularly stable along the analyzed
time frame. Furthermore some authors in Paul Heyse’s Deutscher Novellenschatz
use genitives as stylistic device in order to relate their novellas to a specific register
or an exalted stylistic level.

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