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- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
- The Oxford Handbook of Case
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- The Authors
- Introduction
- History of the Research on Case
- Modern Approaches to Case: An Overview
- Case in GB/Minimalism
- Case in Lexical-Functional Grammar
- The Case Tier: A Hierarchical Approach to Morphological Case
- Case in Optimality Theory
- Case in Role and Reference Grammar
- Case in Localist Case Grammar
- Case in Cognitive Grammar
- Case in NSM: A Reanalysis of the Polish Dative
- Case in Formal Semantics
- Case as a Morphological Phenomenon
- Case and Declensional Paradigms
- Case Syncretism
- The Distribution of Case
- Asymmetry in Case Marking: Nominal VS. Pronominal Systems
- Case, Grammatical Relations, and Semantic Roles
- Syntactic Effects of Morphological Case
- Case and Alternative Strategies: Word Order and Agreement Marking
- Case Marking and Alignment
- Case and Voice: Case in Derived Constructions
- Differential Case Marking and Actancy Variations
- Case and the Typology of Transitivity
- The Acquisition of Case
- Case in Language Production
- Case in Lanuge Comprehension
- Case in Aphasia
- Evolution of Case Systems
- Grammaticalization of Cases
- Case in Decline
- The Geography of Case
- Case and Contact Linguistics
- Terminology of Case
- Case Polysemy
- Marked Nominatives
- Varieties of Accusative
- Varieties of Ergative
- Varieties of Dative
- Varieties of Genitive
- Varieties of Instrumental
- Varieties of Comitative
- Spatial Cases
- The Vocative – An Outlier Case
- Rare and ‘Exotic’ Cases
- Typology of Case Systems: Parameters of Variation
- Case Marking in Daghestanian: Limits of Elaboration
- Poor (Two-Term) Case Systems: Limits of Neutralization
- Case In Iranian: From Reduction and Loss to Innovation and Renewal
- From Synthetic to Analytic Case: Variation in South Slavic Dialects
- Casein an African Language: Ik-how Defective a Case Can Be
- Differential Case Marking of Arguments in Amharic
- Case in an Australian Language: Distribution of Case and Multiple Case Marking in Nyamal
- Case in an Austronesian Language: Distinguishing Case Functions in Tukang Besi
- Case in a Topic-Prominent Language: Pragmatic and Syntactic Functions of Cases in Japanese
- Case in Yukaghir Languages
- Case Relations in Tlaanec, a Head-Marking Language
- ‘Case Relations’ in Lao, A Radically Isolating Language
- References
- Subject Index
- Author Index
- Language Index
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- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
- The Oxford Handbook of Case
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- The Authors
- Introduction
- History of the Research on Case
- Modern Approaches to Case: An Overview
- Case in GB/Minimalism
- Case in Lexical-Functional Grammar
- The Case Tier: A Hierarchical Approach to Morphological Case
- Case in Optimality Theory
- Case in Role and Reference Grammar
- Case in Localist Case Grammar
- Case in Cognitive Grammar
- Case in NSM: A Reanalysis of the Polish Dative
- Case in Formal Semantics
- Case as a Morphological Phenomenon
- Case and Declensional Paradigms
- Case Syncretism
- The Distribution of Case
- Asymmetry in Case Marking: Nominal VS. Pronominal Systems
- Case, Grammatical Relations, and Semantic Roles
- Syntactic Effects of Morphological Case
- Case and Alternative Strategies: Word Order and Agreement Marking
- Case Marking and Alignment
- Case and Voice: Case in Derived Constructions
- Differential Case Marking and Actancy Variations
- Case and the Typology of Transitivity
- The Acquisition of Case
- Case in Language Production
- Case in Lanuge Comprehension
- Case in Aphasia
- Evolution of Case Systems
- Grammaticalization of Cases
- Case in Decline
- The Geography of Case
- Case and Contact Linguistics
- Terminology of Case
- Case Polysemy
- Marked Nominatives
- Varieties of Accusative
- Varieties of Ergative
- Varieties of Dative
- Varieties of Genitive
- Varieties of Instrumental
- Varieties of Comitative
- Spatial Cases
- The Vocative – An Outlier Case
- Rare and ‘Exotic’ Cases
- Typology of Case Systems: Parameters of Variation
- Case Marking in Daghestanian: Limits of Elaboration
- Poor (Two-Term) Case Systems: Limits of Neutralization
- Case In Iranian: From Reduction and Loss to Innovation and Renewal
- From Synthetic to Analytic Case: Variation in South Slavic Dialects
- Casein an African Language: Ik-how Defective a Case Can Be
- Differential Case Marking of Arguments in Amharic
- Case in an Australian Language: Distribution of Case and Multiple Case Marking in Nyamal
- Case in an Austronesian Language: Distinguishing Case Functions in Tukang Besi
- Case in a Topic-Prominent Language: Pragmatic and Syntactic Functions of Cases in Japanese
- Case in Yukaghir Languages
- Case Relations in Tlaanec, a Head-Marking Language
- ‘Case Relations’ in Lao, A Radically Isolating Language
- References
- Subject Index
- Author Index
- Language Index