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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>
> --- 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".
>

In spite of constant admonitions to the contrary, Danes persevere in
writing in using the English gentive construction with apostrophe -'s
instead of the prescribed, more German-like -s without one.
Obviously, to the native Sprachgefühl, it's not a case suffix.

Torsten