The grammar of case : towards a localistic theory
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The grammar of case : towards a localistic theory
（Cambridge studies in linguistics, 4）
Cambridge University Press, 1976
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 223-238
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
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.
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