The role of semantic, pragmatic, and discourse factors in the development of case - Jóhanna Barðdal, 1969-; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi, 1961- (Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009)
List of contributors -- Introduction: the role of semantic, pragmatic and discourse factors in the development of case / Jóhanna Barðdal & Shobhana L. Chelliah -- Pt. 1. Semantically and aspectually motivated synchronic case variation -- Case variation in Gothic absolute constructions / Tonya Kim Dewey & Yasmin Syed -- Some semantic and pragmatic aspects of object alternation in Early Vedic / Eystein Dahl -- Pt. 2. Discourse motivated subject marking -- The case of the shifty ergative marker : a pragmatic shift in the ergative marker of one Australian mixed language / Felicity Meakins -- How useful is case morphology? : the loss of the Old French two-case system within a theory of preferred argument structure / Ulrich Detges -- Pt. 3. Reduction or expansion of case marker distribution -- The development of case in Germanic / Jóhanna Barðdal -- A usage-based approach to change : Old Russian possessive constructions / Hanne Martine Eckhoff -- Lacking in Latvian : case variation from a cognitive and constructional perspective / Sturla Berg-Olsen -- Verb classes and dative objects in Insular Scandinavian / Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson -- Transitive adjectives in Japanese / Daniela Caluianu -- Pt. 4. Case syncretism motivated by syntax, semantics or language contact -- Patterns of development, patterns of syncretism of relational morphology in the Bodic languages / Michael Noonan -- The evolution of local cases and their grammatical equivalent in Greek and Latin / Silvia Luraghi -- Argument structure and alignment variations and changes in Late Latin / Michela Cennamo -- Case loss in Texas German : the influence of semantic and pragmatic factors / Hans C. Boas -- Pt. 5. Case splits motivated by pragmatics, metonymy and subjectification -- Semantic role to new information in Meithei / Shobhana L. Chelliah -- From less personal to more personal : subjectification of ni-marked NPs in Japanese discourse / Misumi Sadler.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Keywords: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Case; Case grammar