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

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

>
> --- 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?

I do not find it problematic if a thing can be classified in more
than one way at the same time. To me, it appears fully adequate to
say that -'s is still a case ending, and that not only nouns but
also some noun phrases can be inflected for genitive case.

Jens