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The Pervasiveness of Clidics in English
In English the possessive apostrophe s does not actually attach to nouns it attaches to entire phrases so you can say things like the man I saw yesterday's dog. It is very pervasive and most people don't think about it right. In some languages a language that uses cliddics for case marking may have especially phrasal level case marking might have a separate way to distinguish a predicate adjective or noun from a non-predicate adduce ever noun. Oh that's something that we failed to mention yet because a predicate nouns work very differently. They kind of like so in English you can mark um you can use the whichever of the nominative or accusative pronouns you