Why Still the Possessive Case (in English)?

[Johanna]

@Leo_Bloom

Homeward/homewards? Toward/towards?

Isn’t that a genitive thing? (Besides being a bugaboo of mine because I never know which one.)

Yep. So is “always,” “sometimes,” and dialectal “go a ways.”

Methinks dative survives. Or when my mother said, “cry me a river.” Ethically.

I saw what you did there.
It survives in syntax but not morphology.

[Johanna]

Leo Bloom did pick up on something significant: the fact that true cases in English survive only in pronouns.