Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Part I. Morphological case
5. Syntactic vs. morphological case 3
6. Case systems in a diachronic perspective 23
7. Emergence of morphological cases in South Mande 49
8. Issues of morphological ergativity in the Tsimshian languages 65
9. Direction marking and case in Menominee 91
10. Part II. Case-marking and transitivity
11. A. Syntax of case
12. Bare and prepositional differential case marking 115
13. Control infinitives and case in Germanic 147
14. Experiencer coding in Nakh-Daghestanian 179
15. ‘Argument sharing’ in Oriya serial verb constructions 203
16. B. Case interpretation
17. Two approaches to specificity 225
18. Case markedness 249
19. Incremental distinguishability of subject and object 269
20. C. Case and the typology of transitivity
21. The woman showed the baby to her sister 291
22. Case semantics and the agent-patient opposition 309
23. Transitivity parameters and transitivity alternations 329
24. Transitivity in Songhay 359
25. Part III. Transitivity and valency change
26. Syntactic valence, information structure, and passive constructions in Kaqchikel 375
27. A very active passive 393
28. Case marking, possession and syntactic hierarchies in Khakas causative constructions in comparison with other Turkic languages 417
29. Transitivity increase markers interacting with verbs semantics 441
30. Extraversive transitivization in Yucatec Maya and the nature of the applicative 465
31. Language Index 495
32. Subject Index 498