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Oxford Handbook of Case Paperback - 2011

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Author: Andrej Malchukov
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by Andrej Malchukov (Editor); Andrew Spencer (Editor)

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This Handbook provides a comprehensive account of current research on case and the morphological and syntactic phenomena associated with it. The semantic roles and grammatical relations indicated by case are fundamental to the whole system of language and have long been a central concern of descriptive and theoretical linguistics. The book opens with the editors' synoptic overview of the main lines of research in the field, which sets out the main issues, challenges, and debates. Some sixty scholars from all over the world then report on the state of play in theoretical, typological, diachronic, and psycholinguistic research. They assess cross-linguistic work on case and case-systems and evaluate a variety of theoretical approaches. They examine current issues and debates from historical, areal, socio-linguistic, and psycholinguistic perspectives. The final part of the book consists of a set of overviews of case systems representative of some of the world's major language families.

The book includes a detailed index and bibliography as well as copious cross-references. It will be of central interest to all scholars and advanced students of syntax and morphology as well as to those working in associated subjects in semantics, typology, and psycholinguistics.

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Title Oxford Handbook of Case
Author Andrej Malchukov (Editor); Andrew Spencer (Editor)
Binding Paperback
Edition First Edition
Pages 958
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Date 2011-12-17
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780199695713 / 0199695717
Weight 3.6 lbs (1.63 kg)
Dimensions 9.7 x 6.7 x 2.1 in (24.64 x 17.02 x 5.33 cm)
Dewey Decimal Code 415

About the author

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).