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Subject(s)

• Grammar, Comparative and general—Case [Browse]

Editor

• Malʹchukov, A. L. (Andreĭ Lʹvovich) [Browse]
• Spencer, Andrew, 1953 December 15- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Handbooks and manuals [Browse]

Series

• Oxford handbooks in linguistics [More in this series]
• Oxford handbooks in linguistics. [More in this series]

Summary note

This handbook provides a comprehensive account of research on case and the morphological and syntactic phenomena associated with it. Scholars from all over the world provide overviews of theoretical, typological, diachronic, and psycholinguistic research and assess cross-linguistic work on case and case-systems.

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Introduction / Andrej L. Malchukov, Andrew Spencer
• Part I. Theoretical Approaches to Case
• History of the research on case / Barry J. Blake
• Modern approaches to case an overview / Miriam Butt
• Case in GB/minimalism / Jonathan David Bobaljik, Susi Wurmbrand
• Case in lexical-functional grammar / Miriam Butt
• The case tier a hierarchical approach to morphological case / Joan Maling
• Case in optimality theory / Helen de Hoop
• Case in role and reference grammar / Robert D. Van Valin
• Case in localist case grammar / John M. Anderson
• Case in cognitive grammar / Silvia Luraghi
• Case in NSM : a reanalysis of the Polish dative / Anna Wierzbicka
• Case in formal semantics / Helen de Hoop, Joost Zwarts
• Part II. Morphology of Case
• Case as a morphological phenomenon / Andrew Spencer
• Case and declensional paradigms / James P. Blevins
• Case syncretism / Matthew Baerman
• The distribution of case / Edith A. Moravcsik
• Asymmetry in case marking nominal vs. pronominal systems / Oliver A. Iggesen
• Part III. Syntax of Case
• Case, grammatical relations, and semantic roles / Beatrice Primus
• Syntactic effects of morphological case / Ad Neeleman, Fred Weerman
• Case and alternative strategies word order and agreement marking / Anna Siewierska, Dik Bakker
• Case marking and alignment / Balthasar Bickel, Johanna Nichols
• Case and voice case in derived constructions / Masayoshi Shibatani
• Differential case marking and actancy variations / Andrej L. Malchukov, Peter De Swart
• Case and the typology of transitivity / Seppo Kittilä
• Part IV. Case in (Psycho)-Linguistic Disciplines
• The acquisition of case / Sonja Eisenbeiss, [and others]
• Case in language production / Alissa Melinger, [and others]
• Case in languuge comprehension / Markus Bader, Monique Lamers
• Case in aphasia / Monique Lamers, Esther Ruigendijk
• Part V. Areal and Diachronic Issues
• Evolution of case systems / Leonid Kulikov
• Grammaticalization of cases / Bernd Heine
• Case in decline / Jóhanna Barðdal, Leonid Kulikov
• The geography of case / Balthasar Bickel, Johanna Nichols
• Case and contact linguistics / Lars Johanson
• Part VI. Individual Cases : Crosslinguistic Overviews
• Terminology of case / Martin Haspelmath
• Case polysemy / Andrej L. Malchukov, Heiko Narrog
• Marked nominatives / Christa König
• Varieties of accusative / Seppo Kittilä and Andrej L. Malchukov
• Varieties of ergative / Enrique L. Palancar
• Varieties of dative / Åshild Næss
• Varieties of genitive / Yury Lander
• Varieties of instrumental / Heiko Narrog
• Varieties of comitative / Thomas Stolz, [and others]
• Spatial cases / Denis Creissels
• The vocative - an outlier case / Michael Daniel, Andrew Spencer
• Rare and 'exotic' cases / Andrej L. Malchukov
• Part VII. Sketches of Case Systems
• Typology of case systems parameters of variation / Andrej L. Malchukov, Andrew Spencer
• Case marking in Daghestanian limits of elaboration / Michael Daniel, Dmitry Ganenkov
• Poor (two-term) case systems limits of neutralization / Peter Arkadiev
• Case in Iranian from reduction and loss to innovation and renewal / Donald Stilo
• From synthetic to analytic case variation in south Slavic dialects / Andrej N. Sobolev
• Casein an African language ik-how defective a case can be / Christa König
• Differential case marking of arguments in Amharic / Mengistu Amberber
• Case in an Australian language distribution of case and multiple case marking in Nyamal / Alan Dench
• Case in an Austronesian language distinguishing case functions in Tukang Besi / Mark Donohue
• Case in a topic-prominent language pragmatic and syntactic functions of cases in Japanese / Akio Ogawa
• Case in Yukaghir languages / Elena Maslova
• Case relations in Tlaanec, a head-marking language / Søren Wichmann
• Case relations in Lao, a radically isolating language / N. J. Enfield

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Other title(s)

• Handbook of case
• Case

ISBN

• 9780191743535
• 0191743534

LCCN

2008024309

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