The Oxford Handbook of Case

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.

1 - History of the Research on Case
2 - Modern Approaches to Case: An Overview
3 - Case in GB/Minimalism
4 - Case in Lexical-Functional Grammar
5 - The Case Tier: a Hierarchical Approach to Morphological Case
6 - Case in Optimality Theory
7 - Case in Role and Reference Grammar
8 - Case in Localist Case Grammar
9 - Case in Cognitive Grammar
10 - Case in NSM: a Re-analysis of the Polish Dative
11 - Case in Formal Semantics
12 - Case as a Morphological Phenomenon
13 - Case and Declensional Paradigm
14 - Case Syncretism
15 - The Distribution of Case
16 - Asymmetry in Case Marking: Nominal vs. Pronominal Systems
17 - Case, Grammatical Relations, and Semantic Roles
18 - Syntactic Effects of Morphological Case
19 - Case and Alternative Strategies: Word Order and Agreement Marking
20 - Case Marking and Alignment
21 - Case and Voice: Case in Derived Constructions
22 - Differential Case Marking and Actancy Variations
23 - Case and the Typology of Transitivity
24 - The Acquisition of Case
25 - Case in Language Production
26 - Case in Language Comprehension
27 - Case and Aphasia
28 - Evolution of Case Systems
29 - Grammaticalization of Cases
30 - Case in Decline
31 - The Geography of Case
32 - Case and Contact Linguistics
33 - Terminology of Case
34 - Case Polysemy
35 - Marked Nominatives
36 - Varieties of Accusative
37 - Varieties of Ergative
38 - Varieties of Dative
39 - Varieties of Genitive
40 - Varieties of Instrumental
41 - Varieties of Comitative
42 - Spatial Cases
43 - The Vocative - an Outlier Case
44 - Rare and 'Exotic' Cases
45 - Typology of Case Systems: Parameters of Variation
46 - Case Marking in Daghestanian: Limits of Elaboration
47 - Poor (Two-Term) Case Systems: Limits of Neutralization
48 - Case In Iranian: From Reducation and Loss to Innovation and Renewal
49 - From Synthetic to Analytic Case: Variation in South Slavic Dialects
50 - Case in an African Language: Ik - How Defective a Case Can be
51 - Differential Case-marking of Arguments in Amharic
52 - Case in an Australian Language: Distribution of Case and Multiple Case-Marking in Nyamal
53 - Case in an Austronesian Language: Distinguishing Case Functions in Tukang Besi
54 - Case in a Topic-Prominent Language: Pragmatic and Syntactic Functions of Cases in Japanese
55 - Case in Yukaghir Languages
56 - Case Relations in Tlapanec, a Head-Marking Language
57 - 'Case Relations' in Lao, a Radically Isolating Language

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).