The Place of Case in Grammar

Christina Sevdali is a Senior Lecturer at Ulster University. She studied at the University of Crete and obtained her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2007. She works on the syntax of Ancient Greek as well as the diachrony of Greek, in particular the loss of infinitives and changes in the Greek case system. She was the principal investigator on two AHRC projects: 'Investigating Variation and Change: Case in Diachrony' and 'Language Awareness in Key Stage 3'. She has published her work in journals such as Syntax, Language, and Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Dionysios Mertyris is a Researcher at the Research Centre for Modern Greek Dialects (Historical Dictionary of Modern Greek), Academy of Athens. He specializes in historical linguistics, dialectology, and the diachrony of the Greek language. His PhD thesis (La Trobe University, 2014) deals with the loss of the genitive case in Greek from a diachronic and dialectological perspective. He worked on the AHRC project 'Investigating Variation and Change: Case in Diachrony'. Elena Anagnostopoulou is Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Crete. Her research interests lie in theoretical and comparative syntax, formal linguistic typology, morphology, and historical morphosyntax, focusing on the interfaces between syntax, morphology, and the lexicon, argument alternations, Case, Agreement, person, gender, clitics, control, and anaphora. In 2013 she received a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in recognition of her past accomplishments in research and teaching and since 2019 she has been an elected member of the Academia Europaea.

1: Elena Anagnostopoulou and Christina Sevdali: Introduction: The place of case in grammar
Part I. Theoretical issues: Parametrization, dependent case, and Agree
2: Mark C. Baker: Dependent case and the sometimes independence of ergativity and Differential Object Marking
3: Julie Anne Legate: On theories of Case and Universal Grammar
4: Omer Preminger: Taxonomies of case and ontologies of case
5: András Bárány and Michelle Sheehan: Challenges for dependent case
6: M. Rita Manzini: Differential Object Marking and ergative as structural oblique cases in an Agree framework
7: Ian Roberts: Case and the theory of parameters
Part II. The distinction between structural and inherent case: Synchronic and diachronic issues
8: Thomas McFadden: A synthesis for the structural/inherent case distinction and its comparative and diachronic consequences
9: Olga Kagan: Can case be semantic?
10: Christin Beck and Miriam Butt: The rise of dative subjects: Relative prominence in event structure
11: Dimitris Michelioudakis, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, and Giorgos Spathas: The emergence of prepositional genitives in Greek and its diachronic implications
12: Vassilios Spyropoulos: . Case, function, and Prepositional Phrase structure in Ancient Greek
13: Fenna Bergsma: The R-pronoun and postposition waar-mee in Dutch
Part III. Specific cases: Nominatives, genitives, datives, and partitives
14: David Pesetsky: Arguments from case for a derivational theory of finiteness: Nominative memories of a past life
15: Nigel Duffield: Reconsidering nominative case in English: 'We bade it a tedious returning'
16: Paola Crisma, Cristina Guardiano, and Giuseppe Longobardi: A unified theory of Case form and Case meaning: Genitives and parametric syntax
17: Artemis Alexiadou: Greek deponent verbs and their nominalizations: Genitive case as unmarked case in the nominal domain
18: Elena Anagnostopoulou, Morgan Macleod, Dionysios Mertyris, and Christina Sevdali: Genitives and datives with Ancient Greek three-place predicates
19: Patricia Schneider-Zioga and Monica Alexandrina Irimia: Partitives, Case, and licensing in Kinande