1. Introduction to the puzzles -- 2. Do we need the traditional case categories? -- 3. Russian as a case-stacking language -- 4. Argument 1 for the core proposal : NGEN, DNOM and POBL -- 5. An independent argument from gender agreement for the initial low position of paucals -- 6. Numerals and other quantifiers -- 7. VACC and the morphosyntax of direct objects -- 8. Argument 2 for the core proposal : "You are what you assign" -- 9. Feature assignment and the notion "prototype" -- 10. Conclusions -- appendix 1. Nominative plural adjectives in paucal constructions -- appendix 2. A defectivity puzzle : the numeral-classifier construction -- appendix 3. A South Slavic argument by Horvath (2011) that "you are what you assign" holds of prepositions.
