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With recent developments in Case Theory, movements in which a DP acquires a different case to the one it would have received had it not moved have been accepted as a possibility. In this paper we examine a number of such movements from a variety of languages to attempt to characterise and understand them more fully. Based in Dependent Case Theory, our analysis claims that case change does not really happen, but case assignment is allowed to be delayed under certain circumstances creating the illusion of one case over-writing another. In explicating these circumstances, we are not only able to provide a better understanding of when ‘case change’ can and can’t happen, but also develop the theory in ways which address certain conceptual problems that it faces.

Not so exceptional case marking in English 51 of such terms. Using such names has often been assumed to be a positive way to compare and contrast different case systems in the world's languages. With their use, for example, we can see similarities between the Hungarian subject of a finite clause, which carries no case morphology, and the equivalent element in Japanese, which is marked for case. This is because both languages have a nominative-accusative system, assigning one case (morphologically unmarked in Hungarian but marked in Japanese) to grammatical subjects and a different one to the object (marked in both languages) 2 .(2) a János- meghív-t-a Mari-t. János-NOM invite-PAST-3S. Mari-ACC 'John invited Mary.' b Mari- alsz-ik. Mary-NOM sleep-3S. 'Mary is sleeping.'(3) a Inu-ga mizu-o no-mu. dog-NOM water-ACC drink-PRES 'The dog drinks water.' b Shojo-ga aru-ku girl-NOM walk-PRES 'The girls walks.'In turn, we can then contrast these languages with those which have an ergativeabsolutive system, such as Basque, where the subject of the intransitive clause is assigned the same case as the object (absolutive), while the subject of the transitive gets another case (ergative).(4) a Jon-ek sagar bat jan du. John-ERG apple a.ABS eat have.(3S.ABS.)3S.ERG 'John has eaten an apple.' b Mahai-a apurtu da. table-DET.ABS break be.3S.ABS 'The table broke.' 2 Baker (2015) claims that Japanese is a marked nominative language, which in his system is a distinct case system characterised by a negative condition on the assignment of dependent case (assign dependent case to a DP which is NOT c-commanded by another DP in the same domain). In such a system, 'nominative' is the dependent case and 'accusative' is unmarked. However, while there are languages in which nominative is morphologically marked and accusative is unmarked, in Japanese both nominative and accusative are marked.

This issue of Acta Linguistica Academica contains five papers which were "overspill" from number 4 of Acta Linguistica Hungarica volume 63 (2016), but because of space limitations could not be included there. The slight "skip" between the two issues was due to the special issue (volume 64, number 1), which heralded the new name of the journal and its change in aims and focus. All five of the papers were originally presented at the 1st Budapest Linguistics Conference (BLINC) in June 2015. The five papers are: Gábor Alberti, Judit Farkas and Veronika Szabó, 'HATNÉK-nominalization: Two subtypes of a highly verbal Hungarian deverbal nominalization'; Tamás Biró, 'Uncovering structure hand in hand: Joint Robust Interpretive Parsing in Optimality Theory'; Mojmír Dočekal, 'Upper bounded and unbounded "no more"'; Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández and Bożena Rozwadowska, 'On subject properties of datives in psych predicates: A comparative approach', and Branimir Stanković, 'DP and mandatory determiners in article-less Serbo-Croatian'. We would like to thank all the anonymous reviewers for their work in improving the submitted papers. Also we would like to express our gratitude to the editors of Acta Linguistica Hungarica/Academica for letting us borrow their journal for publishing these BLINC papers. Special thanks go to Katalin É. Kiss and Zoltán G. Kiss for their experience and help in completing this task.