Form and function in identifying cases

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Of abundance and scantiness in inflection: A typological prelude 1
3. Form and function in identifying cases 41
4. Paradigm size, possible syncretism, and the use of adpositions with cases in flective languages 57
5. Pragmatic disguise in pronominal-affix paradigms 75
6. Geometric representation of paradigms in a modular theory of grammar 91
7. Systematic versus accidental phonological identity 113
8. Syncretism and the paradigmatic patterning of grammatical meaning 133
9. Rasmus Rask’s dilemma 161
10. The assessment of paradigm stability: Some Indo-European case studies 197
11. Inflection classes: Two questions with one answer 213
12. Organising principles for nominal paradigms in Daghestanian languages: Comparative and typological observations 255
13. The geometry of verb paradigms in Teso-Turkana 275
14. Author Index 307
15. Subject Index 311
16. Language Index 315
17. Backmatter 318