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Morphological Case

This journal is such as a way to promote a volume. Volume here contain of a lot of journals which written by journalist and linguists discussed about deviation in language case. Most of them highlighted the semantic factor. Volume was presented at the Workshop on Emphirical Approaches to Morphological Case held at the LSA Summer Institute at Stanford University, CA, in 2007.
The main goal of the workshop was to highlight and aims to understand non-canonical uses of case. Such recent studies have shown that the choice of morphological case is more complex than a simple mapping between a noun phrase and its grammatical relation. This edited special volume aim to contribute and to a commencing discussion of this multifaceted phenomenon and morphological case.
C. Donohue, in her article entitled Towards an understanding of dative objects in Basque, investigates the non-standard use of dative case in Basque. In particular, she focuses on transitive clauses where the object bears dative case. M. Donohue, in his article entitled Case and configurationality: scrambling or mapping? It highlights the importance of taking morphology seriously. He presents data from Kanum in New Guinea which exhibits a number of non configurational properties.
Discussions of configurationality, and particularly non configurationality, have focused on data from Australian languages, for many of which evidence for VP and NP units is fleeting. Grimm, in his article entitled Semantics of case, presents a novel framework that directly relates the distribution of case with the semantics of argument realization. Grimm cogently shows how this system accounts for case alternations as well as case polysemy. Butt and Ahmed, in their article entitled The redevelopment of Indo-Aryan case systems from a lexical semantic perspective, re-examine the development of case from Sanskrit into the new Indo-Aryan languages, suggesting that it is the result of semantic contrasts. Krasovitsky, Baerman, Brown, and Corbett, in their article entitled Changing semantic factors in case selection, investigate changes in the semantic factors relevant for the Russian genitive of negation with direct objects during the last 200 years. In Modern Russian, moreover, an additional factor has come to play a role, namely the type of verb phrase, as non-finite verbs are much more likely to show up with an accusative on the negated object than finite verbs. Von Heusinger and Kaiser, in their article entitled Affectedness and differential object marking in Spanish, carry out an investigation of the spread of differential object marking across lexical verb classes in the history of Spanish. Barddal, in her article entitled Lexical vs. structural case: a false dichotomy, takes issue with the generative dichotomy of structural and lexical case and the subdivision of lexical case into thematic and idiosyncratic case.