The Oxford Handbook of Case

by Malchukov, Andrej; Spencer, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780199206476
• ISBN10: 0199206473
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This handbook provides a comprehensive account of current research on case and the morphological and syntactic phenomena associated with it. The semantic roles and grammatical relations indicated by case are fundamental to the whole system of language and have long been a central concern of descriptive and theoretical linguistics. The book opens with the editors' synoptic overview of the main lines of research in the field, which sets out the main issues, challenges, and debates. Some sixty scholars from all over the world then report on the state of play in theoretical, typological, diachronic, and psycholinguistic research. They assess cross-linguistic work on case and case-systems and evaluate a variety of theoretical approaches. They examine current issues and debates from historical, areal, socio-linguistic and psycholinguistic perspectives. The final part of the book consists of a set of overviews of case systems representative of some of the world's major language families. The book is fully cross-referenced, referenced, and indexed. It will be of central interest to all scholars and advanced students of syntax and morphology as well as to those working in associated subjects in semantics, typology, and psycholinguistics.

Author Biography

Andrej Malchukov is a senior researcher at the Institute of Linguistic Studies, St-Petersburg, currently affiliated to Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig). He is the editor, with Leonid Kulikov and Peter de Swart, of Case, Valency and Transitivity (Benjamins, 2006) and the author of Nominalization/Verbalization (Lincom, 2004) Andrew Spencer is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Essex. He is the editor, with Arnold Zwicky, of The Handbook of Morphology (Blackwell, 1998) and the author of Phonology: Description and Analysis (Blackwell, 1996) and Morphological Theory (Blackwell, 1991).

Table of Contents

Introduction, Andrej Malchukov

Theoretical Approaches to Case

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 Re-analysis of the Polish Dative

Case in formal semantics

Morphology of Case

Case as a Morphological Phenomenon

Case and Declensional Paradigm

Case Syncretism

The Distribution of Case

Asymmetry in Case Marking: Nominal vs. Pronominal Systems

Syntax of case

Case, Grammatical Relations, and Semantic Roles

Syntactic Effects of Morphological Case, Ad Neeleman and Fred Weerman

Case and Alternative Strategies: word order and agreement marking

Case Marking and Alignment

Case and Voice

Differential Case Marking and Actancy Variations

Case and the Typology of Transitivity

Case in (psycho)linguistic disciplines

The Acquisition of Case, Sonja Eisenbeiss

Case in Language Production, Alissa Melinger

Case in Language Comprehension

Case and Aphasia

Areal and diachronic issues

Evolution of Case Systems

Grammaticalization of Cases

Case in Decline

The Geography of Case

Case and Contact Linguistics

Individual Cases: Cross-Linguistic Overviews

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

Sketches of Case Systems

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 Reducation and Loss to Innovation and Renewal

From Synthetic to Analytic Case: Variation in South Slavic Dialects

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