The Grammar of Case: Towards a Localistic Theory

by John M. Anderson

Overview

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

ISBN-13:	9780521290579
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/08/1976
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Linguistics , #4
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

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.