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

From: tgpedersen
Message: 36320
Date: 2005-02-15

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:
> On 05-02-15 00:03, elmeras2000 wrote:
>
>
> > How is this analyzed? If the umbrella belonged to an already-
known
> > person by the name of <Peter>, the response would be <Peters>,
and
> > everybody would say <Peters> is the genitive of <Peter>.

If that is so, it's odd that everybody _writes_ <Peter's> with a
detached clitic. Germans don't do that, afaIk (or do they? Anybody?).

Torsten