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

From: petegray
Message: 36249
Date: 2005-02-12

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

Now that's an interesting analysis! Do you believe there is a postposition
"s" in English?

I find this hard to accept because "s" has no independent existence. I'd
prefer to see it either as a bound morpheme or a case ending.

Peter