Frontmatter -- 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 -- Backmatter