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Sure, with enough boilerplate code you can do anything in anything. It's more of a categorization of what's the normal style, of what is already provided and encouraged.

In Objective-C, I can easily say "if anyone calls a method on me that I don't implement, sent it to this object instead". I can also say "if anyone calls a method on me that I don't implement, do (foo) instead".

C++, for example, has no equivalent language facility for these scenarios; in fact they're nonsensical since they would both fail to compile.

You could build a similar system for C++ by making every object inherit from some base class that has a method performMethod( method, params) and replace all C++ method calls with your modified calls; but you're building a facility from scratch that comes out-of-the-box on Objective-C.

I'm guessing that in these languages you don't need special argument types (or you can use the same code for any function)

There are several others that support this though... Python and JavaScript spring to mind.