Table of Contents

Part I:
Andrej Malchukov and Andrew Spencer: Introduction
Part II: Theoretical Approaches to Case
1: Barry Blake: History of the Research on Case
2: Miriam Butt: Modern Approaches to Case: An Overview
3: Jonathan Bobaljik and Susanne 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 III: 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 Iggesen: Asymmetry in Case Marking: Nominal vs. Pronominal Systems
Part IV: 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
22: Andrej Malchukov and Peter de Swart: Differential Case Marking and Actancy Variations
23: Seppo Kittilä: Case and the Typology of Transitivity
Part V: 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 VI: Areal and diachronic issues
28: Leonid Kulikov: Evolution of Case Systems
29: Bernd Heine: Grammaticalization of Cases
30: Jóhanna Barðdal 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 Næss: 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 VIII: 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: Petr 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: 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

About the Author

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).

Reviews

A coherent, well-structured and useful collection of authoritative overview articles as well as many specific studies ... The overview articles of the individual parts are state-of-the-art, the great majority of the topic-specific papers are helpful introductions to voluminous literatures and/or complex issues, and the language-specific studies will be valuable sources of reference for years to come.
*Fernando Zúñiga, Studies in Language*

...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.
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