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The aim of this volume is to bring non-syntactic factors in the development of case into the eye of the research field, by illustrating the integral role
of ...
The aim of this volume is to bring non-syntactic factors in the development of case into the eye of the research field, by illustrating the integral role
of pragmatics, semantics, and discourse structure in the historical development of morphologically marked case systems. The articles represent 15
typologically diverse languages from four different language families: (i) Indo-European: Vedic Sanskrit, Russian, Greek, Latin, Latvian, Gothic, French,
German, Icelandic, and Faroese; (ii) Tibeto-Burman, especially the Bodic languages and Meithei; (iii) Japanese; and (iv) the Pama-Nyungan mixed language
Gurindji Kriol. The data also show considerable diversity and include elicited, archival, corpus-based, and naturally occurring data. Discussions of
mechanisms where change is obtained include semantically and aspectually motivated synchronic case variation, discourse motivated subject marking,
reduction or expansion of case marker distribution, case syncretism motivated by semantics, syntax, or language contact, and case splits motivated by
pragmatics, metonymy, and subjectification.
