1. Introduction 2. Establishing Potential Choice Contexts fors-Genitives and of-Genitives 3. An Iconic Interaction between Meaning and Form 4. Iconicity-based Approach to the GenitiveAlternation 4.1 Predictions of the Genitive Alternation 4.2 An Iconicity-theoretic Account of Empirical Genitive Alternation Data 5. Conclusion References Iconicity in the English GenitiveConstructions