The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case (Studies in Language Companion Series)

The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factorsin the Development of Case......Page 2
Editorial page
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Title page
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LCC data
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Table of contents......Page 6
List of contributors......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Part 1. Semantically and aspectually motivated synchronic case variation......Page 22
Case variation in Gothic absolute constructions......Page 24
Some semantic and pragmatic aspects of object alternation in Early Vedic*......Page 44
Part 2. Discourse motivated subject marking......Page 78
The case of the shifty ergative marker......Page 80
How useful is case morphology?......Page 114
Part 3. Reduction or expansion  of case marker distribution......Page 142
The development of case in Germanic......Page 144
A usage-based approach to change......Page 182
Lacking in Latvian: Case variation from a cognitive and constructional perspective......Page 202
Verb classes and dative objects in Insular Scandinavian*......Page 224
Transitive adjectives in Japanese*......Page 246
Part 4. Case syncretism motivated by syntax, semantics or language contact......Page 280
Patterns of development, patterns of syncretism of relational morphology in the Bodic languages......Page 282
The evolution of local cases and their grammatical equivalent in Greek and Latin......Page 304
Argument structure and alignment variations and changes in Late Latin......Page 328
Case loss in Texas German......Page 368
Part 5. Case splits motivated by pragmatics, metonymy and subjectification......Page 396
Semantic role to new information in Meithei*......Page 398
From less personal to more personal......Page 422
Author index......Page 444
Subject index......Page 448
The series Studies in Language Companion Series......Page 454