Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The inanimate whose, also known as the whose inanimate or non-personal whose, refers to the use in English of the relative pronoun whose with non-personal antecedents, as in: \"That's the car whose alarm keeps waking us up at night.\" Its use dates from the 15th century, but from the 18th century drew criticism from those who apparently considered it to be the genetive (possessive) only of the relative pronoun who and therefore believed it should be restricted to personal antecedents. Critics of inanimate whose prefer constructions such as those using of which, a construction others find clumsy or overly formal."@en }
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- Inanimate_whose abstract "The inanimate whose, also known as the whose inanimate or non-personal whose, refers to the use in English of the relative pronoun whose with non-personal antecedents, as in: \"That's the car whose alarm keeps waking us up at night.\" Its use dates from the 15th century, but from the 18th century drew criticism from those who apparently considered it to be the genetive (possessive) only of the relative pronoun who and therefore believed it should be restricted to personal antecedents. Critics of inanimate whose prefer constructions such as those using of which, a construction others find clumsy or overly formal.".