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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "petegray" <petegray@...> wrote:

> > 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.
>

Of course.
1) I wasn't the one to propose it, so I can't take credit for it.
2) It's an alternative, possible analysis.

BTW in Danish you might hear the equivalent of "It was Peter...
's father ..." with an 'independent s', in a separate syllable, if
people correct themselves in mid-sentence.


Torsten