TO THE QUESTION OF THE STATUS OF GENITIVE IN THE LANGUAGES OF DIFFERENT TYPES
To show the variety of the language structure all over the world the paper describes the meaning and the functions of the genitive case in different languages. As the genitive case is a very complex and many-sided phenomenon, it is the centre of continuous discussions among the researchers of different languages. The author defines the status of the genitive case in English using typological and diachronic approaches and in this connection specifies the notion of form. The facts of the Ket language which is the only alive of the Jenisseian languages are used in the article.