Re: [tied] Evening/Night (was Re: The "Mother" Problem)

> Greenberg's universal #2 is "in languages with prepositions,
> the genitive almost always follows the governing noun, while
> in languages with postpositions it almost always precedes".

Greenberg's universals are not universals, but generalisations, some with
few exceptions, some with more. For this particular universal, English is
an exception. So we should not insist on applying it to PIE against any
evidence we might have from daughter languages.

Peter