Germanic genitives Introductory overview Genitives in Germanic Christian Zimmer Horst J. Simon & Tanja Ackermann Portraits of lesser studied languages. A new perspective on the Luxembourgish genitive Caroline Döhmer Frisian genitives: From Old Frisian to the modern dialects Jarich Hoekstra Genitive markers and their destinies. On the motivation of genitive s omission in Contemporary German Christian Zimmer From genitive suffix to linking element: A corpus study on the genesis and productivity of a new compounding pattern in (Early) New High German Kristin Kopf The development of non paradigmatic linking elements in Faroese and the decline of the genitive case Hjalmar P. Petersen & Renata Szczepaniak Genitives in nominal configurations. The Genitive Rule and its background Peter Gallmann From genitive inflection to possessive marker The development of German possessive s with personal names Tanja Ackermann Yiddish possessives as a case for genitive case Kerstin Hoge Genitives and their functional competitors. Genitives and proper name compounds in German Barbara Schlücker On the role of cases and possession in Germanic: A typological approach Kurt Braunmüller