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