Re[2]: [tied] Evening/Night (was Re: The "Mother" Problem)

At 7:51:39 AM on Friday, February 11, 2005, 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.

Matthew Dryer classifies it as a clitic for the purposes of
his typological database.

Brian