Before I had clicked the link I thought you were not referring to Proto-Indo-European but to Standard Average European — how many of the European languages (par

Before I had clicked the link I thought you were not referring to Proto-Indo-European but to Standard Average European — how many of the European languages (particularly the western European languages) have peculiarities in grammar and syntax that are not explained by descent, but by areal features. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Average_European https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Average_European