The Grammar of Case
The Grammar of Case
Towards a Localistic Theory
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A study of the different roles which nouns play in the event or state expressed by the verb or adjective with which they are associated. The book explores within the framework of transformational-generative grammar the 'localist hypothesis', which asserts that all the roles for nouns involve basically the notions of location and direction.
Product details
April 1976Paperback
9780521290579
256 pages
229 × 152 × 15 mm
0.38kg
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Preliminaries:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A sketch of grammar
- Part II. Nominative and Ergative:
- 3. Nominative
- 4. Ergative
- 5. Nominative, ergative and causatives
- Part III. Locative and Ablative:
- 6. Locative
- 7. Abstract location
- 8. Ablative
- 9. Abstract direction
- Part IV. Interlude:
- 10. Sequencing
- Part V. 'Local' and 'non-local':
- 11. Ablative and ergative, locative and nominative
- 12. Prospect and retrospect: Bibliography and abbreviations
- Index.
