From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 36280
Date: 2005-02-14
>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "david_russell_watson"Isn't that called Gruppenflexion?
><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.