The Grammar of Case
Towards a Localistic Theory

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.

John M. Anderson (Author)

9780521290579, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 8 April 1976

256 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.38 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Linguistics [CF]