1. List of contributors; 2. Introduction: The role of semantic, pragmatic and discourse factors in the development of case (by Barddal, Johanna); 3. Part I. Semantically and aspectually motivated synchronic case variation; 4. Case variation in Gothic absolute constructions (by Dewey, Tonya Kim); 5. Some semantic and pragmatic aspects of object alternation in Early Vedic (by Dahl, Eystein); 6. Part II. Discourse motivated subject marking; 7. The case of the shifty ergative marker: A pragmatic shift in the ergative marker of one Australian mixed language (by Meakins, Felicity); 8. How useful is case morphology? The loss of the Old French two-case system within a theory of Preferred Argument structure (by Detges, Ulrich); 9. Part III. Reduction or expansion of case marker distribution; 10. The development of case in Germanic (by Barddal, Johanna); 11. A usage-based approach to change: Old Russian possessive constructions (by Eckhoff, Hanne Martine); 12. Lacking in Latvian: Case variation from a cognitive and constructional perspective (by Berg-Olsen, Sturla); 13. Verb classes and dative objects in Insular Scandinavian (by Jonsson, Johannes Gisli); 14. Transitive adjectives in Japanese (by Caluianu, Daniela); 15. Part IV. Case syncretism motivated by syntax, semantics or language contact; 16. Patterns of development, patterns of syncretism of relational morphology in the Bodic languages (by Noonan, Michael); 17. The evolution of local cases and their grammatical equivalent in Greek and Latin (by Luraghi, Silvia); 18. Argument structure and alignment variations and changes in Late Latin (by Cennamo, Michela); 19. Case loss in Texas German: The influence of semantic and pragmatic factors (by Boas, Hans C.); 20. Part V. Case splits motivated by pragmatics, metonymy and subjectification; 21. Semantic role to new information in Meithei (by Chelliah, Shobhana L.); 22. From less personal to more personal: Subjectification of ni-marked NPs in Japanese discourse (by Sadler, Misumi); 23. Author index; 24. Subject index