Re: a case-free language?

Hi!

Rodlox <Rodlox@...> writes:
>  just wondering...
>
>  are there any languages (natural or conlang) that lack (or very nearly
> lack) cases?
I had a long discussion about this some time ago.  And I was convinced
(although probaby only by making the other people have flat foreheads
from banging their head on the table because I am so stubborn) that
'case' is something purely morphological and many languages achieve
the same effect (marking semantical roles and argument assignment)
differently, e.g. by word order (e.g. Chinese) or adpositions
(e.g. Japanese, Korean).  Thus these languages are said to not have
case.

**Henrik

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