1st Edition

On Case Grammar Prolegomena to a Theory of Grammatical Relations

By John Anderson Copyright 1977
    318 Pages
    by Routledge

    322 Pages
    by Routledge

    Originally published in 1977, On Case Grammar, represents a synthesis of various lines of research, with special regard to the treatment of grammatical relations. Arguments are assessed for and against case grammar, localism, lexical decomposition and relational grammar. The book surveys the important evidence to support the validity of the choice of a case grammar as the most satisfactory of current accounts of the notion of grammatical relations. This evidence is derived from a detailed examination of various processes in English and from a typological comparison of other languages, notably Dyirbal and Basque. The book also looks at the establishment of principled limitation on the set of case relations. Lexical, syntactical, semantic and morphological evidence suggests that the set of cases is in conformity with the predictions of a strong form of the localist hypothesis, which requires that case relations be distinguished in terms of source vs. goal vs. location.

    Preface

    1. Grammars of Case

    2. Localist Case Grammar

    3. On the Nature of Grammatical Relations

    Notes

    Bibliography

    Index

    Biography

    John Anderson