I was reading about case systems because I was curious where they came from in the first place because the past like 1200 years of european linguistic history is them vanishing
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Not really valid outside of Western Europe. Case loss in the Altaic sort of language for instance isn’t attested and you even get shit like wutun where case is innovated through contact with languages that have it
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I think you would love Deutscher’s ”The Unfolding of Language”. Basically, you’re right, but you forgot the first step: whence the cases? Cases are the result of extremely isolated communities in which prepositions collapse into cases.
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