J. 'Mach' Wust wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:18:35 +0200, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
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>>Quoting "J. 'Mach' Wust" <j_mach_wust@...>:
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>>>A clitic of what word?
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>>? I do not understand this question.
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>Clitics are words that are phonetically melted with others, e.g. the
>present third person singular of to be's often cliticized. The 'Saxon
>genitive'-s is not a word phonetically melted with others; therefore, it's
>not a clitic, but rather an ending.
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I don't think so. I think it's a suffix that is attached to a phrase
rather than a word. Which ''s' is.