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PART I; Introduction; PART II: THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO CASE; 1.History of the Research on Case; 2. Modern Approaches to Case: An Overview;3. Case in GB/Minimalism; 4. Case in Lexical-Functional grammar; 5. The CaseTier: a Hierarchical Approach to Morphological Case; 6. Case in OptimalityTheory; 7. Case in Role and Reference Grammar; 8. Case in Localist CaseGrammar; 9. Case in Cognitive Grammar; 10. Case in NSM: a Re-analysis of thePolish Dative; 11. Case in formal semantics; PART III: MORPHOLOGY OF CASE;12. Case as a Morphological Phenomenon; 13. Case and Declensional Paradigm;14. Case Syncretism; 15. The Distribution of Case; 16. Asymmetry in CaseMarking: Nominal vs. Pronominal Systems; PART IV: SYNTAX OF CASE; 17. Case,Grammatical Relations, and Semantic Roles; 18. Syntactic Effects ofMorphological Case; 19. Case and Alternative Strategies: word order andagreement marking; 20. Case Marking and Alignment; 21. Case and Voice; 22.Differential Case Marking and Actancy Variations; 23. Case and the Typologyof Transitivity; PART V: CASE IN (PSYCHO)LINGUISTIC DISCIPLINES; 24. TheAcquisition of Case; 25. Case in Language Production; 26. Case in LanguageComprehension; 27. Case and Aphasia; PART VI: AREAL AND DIACHRONIC ISSUES;28. Evolution of Case Systems; 29. Grammaticalization of Cases; 30. Case inDecline; 31. The Geography of Case; 32. Case and Contact Linguistics; PARTVI: INDIVIDUAL CASES: CROSS-LINGUISTIC OVERVIEWS; 33. Terminology of Case;34. Case Polysemy; 35. Marked Nominatives; 36. Varieties of Accusative; 37.Varieties of Ergative; 38. Varieties of Dative; 39. Varieties of Genitive;40. Varieties of Instrumental; 41. Varieties of Comitative; 42. SpatialCases; 43. The Vocative - an Outlier Case; 44. Rare and 'Exotic' Cases; PARTVIII: SKETCHES OF CASE SYSTEMS; 45. Typology of Case Systems: Parameters ofVariation; 46. Case Marking in Daghestanian: Limits of Elaboration; 47. Poor(Two-Term) Case Systems: Limits of Neutralization; 48. Case In Iranian: FromReducation and Loss to Innovation and Renewal; 49. From Synthetic to AnalyticCase: Variation in South Slavic Dialects; 50. Case in an African Language: Ik- How Defective a Case Can be; 51. Differential Case-marking of Arguments:Amharic; 52. Case in an Australian Language: Distribution of Case andMultiple Case-Marking in Nyamal; 53. Case in an Austronesian language:Distinguishing Case Functions in Tukang Besi; 54. Case in a Topic-ProminentLanguage: Pragmatic and Syntactic Functions of Cases in Japanese; 55. Case inYukaghir Languages; 56. Case Relations in Tlapanec, a Head-Marking Language;57. 'Case Relations' in Lao, a Radically Isolating Language