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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "elmeras2000" <jer@...> wrote:

>
> 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.

So then is -'s still properly a case inflection in Modern
English, or has it not become an enclitic case particle?

David