[tied] Evening/Night (was Re: The "Mother" Problem)

From: tgpedersen
Message: 36204
Date: 2005-02-10

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "petegray" <petegray@...> wrote:
> > > English has two genitive constructions (one GN, the other
> > > NG), so English is of little relevance in this matter.
> >
> > No. "Bill's hat" is possible in English, but *"hat Bill's" is
> not. The
> > other construction is a prepositional phrase, not a genitive.
>
> Isn't "Bill's hat" a postpositional phrase?

AfaIk, "Bill's" or "the king of England's" are postpositional phrases
and "Bill's hat" is a noun phrase.


Torsten