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Cases: Nominative, Genitive, Accusative, Vocative

The four Greek cases and how articles, nouns and adjectives change
Ιστορική απώλεια της δοτικής
Historical loss of the dative case
functions redistributed
Ancient Greek's dative disappeared, absorbed by genitive/accusative
Πτωτική συγκριτότητα ως διαχρονικό μοτίβο
Case syncretism as a diachronic pattern
Ancient to Modern Greek
Formal case distinctions have progressively merged over time
Δομική vs λεξική απόδοση πτώσης
Structural vs lexical case assignment
theoretical distinction
Nominative/accusative are structural; genitive is often lexical
Η γενική ως υπολειμματική πτώση
Genitive as the residual case
absorbing former dative functions
The genitive now covers possession and much of the old dative role
Μορφολογία πτώσης και μετατόπιση τόνου
Case morphology and stress-shift interactions
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Declension often shifts stress alongside the case ending
Πτωτική διακυβέρνηση προθέσεων: ιστορική εξέλιξη
Prepositional case government: historical development
shift toward accusative
Most prepositions have shifted historically to govern the accusative
Πτώση και σειρά λέξεων
Case and word order
case enables freer order
Morphological case marking allows more flexible constituent order
Συγκριτικά συστήματα πτώσεων
Comparative case systems
Modern vs Ancient Greek, other Balkan languages
How the modern 4-case system compares to its ancestors and neighbours
Διαλεκτική διατήρηση δοτικοειδών τύπων
Dialectal retention of dative-like forms
e.g. Pontic, Cappadocian Greek
Some peripheral dialects preserve archaic case distinctions
Υπολογιστική μορφολογική ανάλυση του πτωτικού συστήματος
Computational morphological analysis of the case system
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Building parsers and generators for Greek's case paradigms