Overview

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 includes a detailed index and bibliography as well as copious cross-references. 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.

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Author:   Andrej Malchukov (Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig/ Institute of Linguistic Studies, St-Petersburg) ,  Andrew Spencer (University of Essex)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.80cm , Height: 5.40cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   1.628kg
ISBN:  

9780199695713

ISBN 10:   0199695717
Pages:   958
Publication Date:   20 October 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Andrej Malchukov and Andrew Spencer: Introduction Part I: Theoretical Approaches to Case 1: Barry J. Blake: History of the Research on Case 2: Miriam Butt: Modern Approaches to Case: An Overview 3: Jonathan David Bobaljik and Susi Wurmbrand: Case in GB/Minimalism 4: Miriam Butt: Case in Lexical-Functional Grammar 5: Joan Maling: The Case Tier: a Hierarchical Approach to Morphological Case 6: Helen de Hoop: Case in Optimality Theory 7: Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.: Case in Role and Reference Grammar 8: John Anderson: Case in Localist Case Grammar 9: Silvia Luraghi: Case in Cognitive Grammar 10: Anna Wierzbicka: Case in NSM: a Re-analysis of the Polish Dative 11: Helen de Hoop and Joost Zwarts: Case in Formal Semantics Part II: Morphology of Case 12: Andrew Spencer: Case as a Morphological Phenomenon 13: James Blevins: Case and Declensional Paradigm 14: Matthew Baerman: Case Syncretism 15: Edith Moravcsik: The Distribution of Case 16: Oliver A. Iggesen: Asymmetry in Case Marking: Nominal vs. Pronominal Systems Part III: Syntax of Case 17: Beatrice Primus: Case, Grammatical Relations, and Semantic Roles 18: Ad Neeleman and Fred Weerman: Syntactic Effects of Morphological Case 19: Anna Siewierska and Dik Bakker: Case and Alternative Strategies: Word Order and Agreement Marking 20: Balthasar Bickel and Johanna Nichols: Case Marking and Alignment 21: Masayoshi Shibatani: Case and Voice: Case in Derived Constructions 22: Andrej Malchukov and Peter de Swart: Differential Case Marking and Actancy Variations 23: Seppo Kittilä: Case and the Typology of Transitivity Part IV: Case in (psycho)linguistic Disciplines 24: Sonja Eisenbeiss, Bhuvana Narasimhan, and Maria D. Voeikova: The Acquisition of Case 25: Alissa Melinger, Thomas Pechmann and Sandra Pappert: Case in Language Production 26: Markus Bader and Monique Lamers: Case in Language Comprehension 27: Monique Lamers and Esther Ruigendijk: Case and Aphasia Part V: Areal and Diachronic Issues 28: Leonid Kulikov: Evolution of Case Systems 29: Bernd Heine: Grammaticalization of Cases 30: Johanna Barddal and Leonid Kulikov: Case in Decline 31: Balthasar Bickel and Johanna Nichols: The Geography of Case 32: Lars Johanson: Case and Contact Linguistics Part VI: Individual Cases: Cross-Linguistic Overviews 33: Martin Haspelmath: Terminology of Case 34: Andrej Malchukov and Heiko Narrog: Case Polysemy 35: Christa König: Marked Nominatives 36: Seppo Kittilä and Andrej Malchukov: Varieties of Accusative 37: Enrique Palancar: Varieties of Ergative 38: Åshild Naess: Varieties of Dative 39: Yury Lander: Varieties of Genitive 40: Heiko Narrog: Varieties of Instrumental 41: Thomas Stolz, Cornelia Stroh, and Aina Urdze: Varieties of Comitative 42: Denis Creissels: Spatial Cases 43: Michael Daniel and Andrew Spencer: The Vocative - an Outlier Case 44: Andrej Malchukov: Rare and 'Exotic' Cases Part VII: Sketches of Case Systems 45: Andrej Malchukov and Andrew Spencer: Typology of Case Systems: Parameters of Variation 46: Michael Daniel and Dmitri Ganenkov: Case Marking in Daghestanian: Limits of Elaboration 47: Peter M. Arkadjev: Poor (Two-Term) Case Systems: Limits of Neutralization 48: Don Stilo: Case In Iranian: From Reducation and Loss to Innovation and Renewal 49: Andrej Sobolev: From Synthetic to Analytic Case: Variation in South Slavic Dialects 50: Christa König: Case in an African Language: Ik - How Defective a Case Can be 51: Mengistu Amberber: Differential Case-marking of Arguments in Amharic 52: Alan Dench: Case in an Australian Language: Distribution of Case and Multiple Case-Marking in Nyamal 53: Mark Donohue: Case in an Austronesian Language: Distinguishing Case Functions in Tukang Besi 54: Akio Ogawa: Case in a Topic-Prominent Language: Pragmatic and Syntactic Functions of Cases in Japanese 55: Elena Maslova: Case in Yukaghir Languages 56: Søren Wichmann: Case Relations in Tlapanec, a Head-Marking Language 57: Nick Enfield: 'Case Relations' in Lao, a Radically Isolating Language References Subject Index Author Index Language Index

Reviews

...anyone who wishes to understand the phenomenon of case from any point of view will find something of interest... Leofranc Holford-Stevens, London Review of Books The Oxford Handbook of Case (despite occasional, mainly technical, flaws) measures up to the most exacting standards and could serve in many respects as a model for handbooks of this sort. It will undoubtedly prove an invaluable resource not only to professional linguists but particularly to a very wide circle of students. Voprosy Jazykoznanija

...anyone who wishes to understand the phenomenon of case from any point of view will find something of interest... Leofranc Holford-Stevens, London Review of Books The Oxford Handbook of Case (despite occasional, mainly technical, flaws) measures up to the most exacting standards and could serve in many respects as a model for handbooks of this sort. It will undoubtedly prove an invaluable resource not only to professional linguists but particularly to a very wide circle of students. Voprosy Jazykoznanija

Author Information

Andrej Malchukov is a senior researcher at the Institute of Linguistic Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences, 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).

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