I'm wondering about the word class of possessive nouns when they  
appear in the subject complement position:

The car parked in front of my house is Herb's.

Is "Herb's" still a determiner with, perhaps, an understood head noun  
"car"?  Or is it an adjective?

Peter Adams

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