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Re: a case-free language?

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 5, 2004, 12:19
Quoting "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>:

> From: Garth Wallace <gwalla@...> > > > > This system satisfies the criteria you suggested for -i- and -u- to be > > > > adpositions, but they're not what I would think of as adpositions, > since > > > > they're completely merged with the noun and can't be separated. > > > > > > If it's phonologically merged with the word but governs a phrase, > > > wouldn't it be a clitic? > > The class of "clitics" and the class of "postpositions" are not > mutually exclusive.
It occurs to me that English possessive -'s could be considered a postposition. Andreas

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