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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
wrote:

>
> >>> <'s> is simply a genitive ending.
>
> >> In <the king of England's daughter>?
>
> > Yes, of course. The underlying genitive is <king's>.
>
> Perhaps it was when one could still say <the king's daughter
> of England>, but I'm not at all sure that the analysis is
> useful today.

I think there is a tendency to address the wrong problem here. What
has happened is in my eyes rather obviously an extension of the
concept of the *word*: In <the king of England's daughter> the
stretch <king of England> is being treated as a word which is then
put in the genitive in a very trivial way.

Jens