case grammar

Analysis by case grammar.

Frame semantics is a theory of linguistic meaning that extends Charles J. Fillmore's case grammar.

For example, Fillmore [1968]proposed the notion of a case grammar, in which each sentence was analysed into the cases attached to the verb:

Cook directed several doctoral dissertations (see e.g., Moskey 1978) applying case grammar to various areas of theoretical and applied linguistics research.

Cook, Walter A., SJ (1989) Case Grammar Theory.

Seven of these roles correspond to Jeffrey Gruber's thematic relations and case roles in Charles Fillmore's case grammar:

Walter A. Cook, SJ, a linguistics professor at Georgetown University, was one of the foremost case grammar theoreticians following Fillmore's original work.

He was one of the founders of cognitive linguistics, and developed the theories of Case Grammar (Fillmore 1968), and Frame Semantics (1976).

Moskey, Stephen T. (1978) Semantic Structures and Relations in Dutch: An Introduction to Case Grammar.

"A Case Grammar of Ga'anda," University of California at Los Angeles PhD dissertation.

Case Grammar is a system of linguistic analysis, focusing on the link between the valence, or number of subjects, objects, etc., of a verb and the grammatical context it requires.

The influence of case grammar on contemporary linguistics has been significant, to the extent that numerous linguistic theories incorporate deep roles in one or other form, such as the so-called Thematic structure in Government and Binding theory.

A significant point to note is that all three of Fiji's official languages have greatly been influenced by one another, in terms of vocabulary and in some cases grammar, due to the constant, everyday contact between these languages, now for over a century.

Cook devoted most of his scholarly research from the early 1970s until 1990s to further developing case grammar as a tool for linguistic analysis, language teaching methodology, and other applications, and was the author of several major texts and many articles in case grammar.

A fundamental hypothesis of case grammar is that grammatical functions, such as subject or object, are determined by the deep, semantic valence of the verb, which finds its syntactic correlate in such grammatical categories as Subject and Object, and in grammatical cases such as Nominative, Accusative, etc.