1. Introduction; 2. Part I. Morphological case; 3. Syntactic vs. morphological case: Implications for morphosyntax (by Spencer, Andrew); 4. Case systems in a diachronic perspective: A typological sketch (by Kulikov, Leonid); 5. Emergence of morphological cases in South Mande: From the amorphous type to inflectional? (by Vydrin, Valentin); 6. Issues of morphological ergativity in the Tsimshian languages: Agreement, determiners and the reconstruction of case (by Peterson, Tyler); 7. Direction marking and case in Menominee (by Trommer, Jochen); 8. Part II. Case-marking and transitivity; 9. A. Syntax of case; 10. Bare and prepositional differential case marking: The exotic case of German (and Icelandic) among all of Germanic (by Abraham, Werner); 11. Control infinitives and case in Germanic: 'Performance error' or marginally acceptable constructions? (by Barddal, Johanna); 12. Experiencer coding in Nakh-Daghestanian (by Ganenkov, Dmitry); 13. 'Argument sharing' in Oriya serial verb constructions (by Sahoo, Kalyanamalini); 14. B. Case interpretation; 15. Two approaches to specificity (by Johanson, Lars); 16. Case markedness (by Swart, Peter de); 17. Incremental distinguishability of subject and object (by Hoop, Helen de); 18. C. Case and the typology of transitivity; 19. The woman showed the baby to her sister: On resolving humanness-driven ambiguity in ditransitives (by Kittila, Seppo); 20. Case semantics and the agent-patient opposition (by Naess, Ashild); 21. Transitivity parameters and transitivity alternations: Constraining co-variation (by Malchukov, Andrej); 22. Transitivity in Songhay (by Galiamina, Julia); 23. Part III. Transitivity and valency change; 24. Syntactic valence, information structure, and passive constructions in Kaqchikel (by Broadwell, George Aaron); 25. A very active passive: Functional similarities between passive and causative in Balkar (by Lyutikova, Ekaterina); 26. Case marking, possession and syntactic hierarchies in Khakas causative constructions in comparison with other Turkic languages (by Letuchiy, Alexander); 27. Transitivity increase markers interacting with verbs semantics: Evidence from Finno-Ugric languages (by Kalinina, Elena); 28. Extraversive transitivization in Yucatec Maya and the nature of the applicative (by Lehmann, Christian); 29. Language Index; 30. Subject Index
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