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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 16:26:23 +0000, petegray
> <petegray@...> wrote:
>
> >> 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".

> English has two genitive constructions (one GN, the other
> NG), so English is of little relevance in this matter.

Besides which, the Anglo-Scandinavian possessive is very like a
postposition - "the King of England's hat".

Richard.