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    1. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Apr 19

      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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    2. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Apr 19

      it seems like an iron law that case systems go away when you're forced to interact daily with distant language branches/families

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    3. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Apr 19

      like old english loses its case system upon contact with the danes. all the old norse-descended languages lose theirs except icelandic. romance obviously from germanic contact etc

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    4. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Apr 19

      other than romanian ofc, was relatively isolated/independent by comparison. same with finns slavs hungarians

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    5. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Apr 19

      (basically the process sounds cyclical, you have all these cool adpositions you use to much they blend together with the words forming cases, then you get...

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      Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Apr 19

      ...lazy about the cases so they fuse together, then you're like shit we don't know what any of these words mean anymore so you come up with some adpositions)

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        1. [Туулу Jерим] Hallow‏ @HallowXIII Apr 22
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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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        1. Torstensson‏ @Torstensson111 Apr 20
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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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