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The chapters of this volume scrutinize the interplay of different combinations of case, animacy and semantic roles, thus contributing to our understanding of these notions in a novel way. The focus of the chapters lies on showing how animacy affects argument marking. Unlike previous studies, these chapters primarily deal with lesser studied phenomena, such as animacy effects on spatial cases and the differences between cases and adpositions in the coding of spatial relations. In addition, theoretical and diachronic issues related to case and semantic roles are also discussed; for example, what

Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Semantics. --- Case. --- Animacy. --- #KVHA:Taalkunde --- #KVHA:Semantiek --- #KVHA:Case grammar --- #KVHA:Semantische rollen --- Semantics --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Case --- Animacy (Grammar) --- Animacy --- Animateness --- Grammatical categories --- Linguistics --- Philology