Intro -- Contributors -- Preface -- Of abundance and scantiness in inflection: A typological prelude -- Form and function in identifying cases -- Paradigm size, possible syncretism, and the use of adpositions with cases in flective languages -- Pragmatic disguise in pronominal-affix paradigms -- Geometric representation of paradigms in a modular theory of grammar -- Systematic versus accidental phonological identity -- Syncretism and the paradigmatic patterning of grammatical meaning -- Rasmus Rask's dilemma -- The assessment of paradigm stability: Some Indo-European case studies -- Inflection classes: Two questions with one answer -- Organising principles for nominal paradigms in Daghestanian languages: Comparative and typological observations -- The geometry of verb paradigms in Teso-Turkana -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- Language Index.

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

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