grass@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU (11/15/85)
>A Finnish linguist of my acquaintance has hypothesized (partly >in jest) that all languages have cases in numbers that are powers >of two, so that if you were going to have more than 8, you had to have >16. ..... > -Elizabeth D. Zwicky There are lots of counter examples... For starters: Russian has 6 cases, Czech has 7 (they have a vocative). - Judy Grass, University of Illinois - Urbana {ihnp4,pur-ee,convex}!uiucdcs!grass grass%uiuc.arpa