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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext This handbook provides a comprehensive account of research on case and the morphological and syntactic phenomena associated with it. Scholars from all over the world provide overviews of theoretical! typological! diachronic! and psycholinguistic research and assess cross-linguistic work on case and case-systems. Zusammenfassung This Handbook provides a comprehensive account of current research on case and the morphological and syntactic phenomena associated with it. Scholars from all over the world provide overviews of current theoretical, typological, diachronic, and psycholinguistic research and assess cross-linguistic work on case and case-systems. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Bicke...