Modern Grammars of Case

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Conventions and Abbreviations......Page 12
1 Prologue......Page 14
Part I: The Tradition......Page 22
2.1 The tradition......Page 24
2.2 The autonomists and other critics of the tradition......Page 37
2.3 Conclusion......Page 48
3 Early Case Grammar......Page 49
3.1 The Fillmorean initiative......Page 50
3.2 The representation of case relations and forms......Page 59
3.3 Conclusion......Page 66
4 Case Grammar and the Demise of Deep Structure......Page 69
4.1 ‘Deep structure’ and the place of holisticness......Page 70
4.2 The after-life of ‘deep structure’......Page 74
4.3 Excursus on the tortuous history of ‘thematic relations’......Page 87
4.4 Conclusion: where we have reached......Page 89
5 The Identity of Semantic Relations......Page 92
5.1 Distributional criteria for particular ‘cases’......Page 93
5.2 General criteria: principles of ‘complementarity’ and ‘contrast’......Page 95
5.3 The ineluctability of ‘case’......Page 103
5.4 Localist grammars of case......Page 106
5.5 Conclusion and prospect......Page 119
Part II: The Implementation of the Category of Case......Page 126
6 Localist Case Grammar......Page 128
6.1 ‘Syntactic/logical’ case forms and localism......Page 129
6.2 ‘Patients’......Page 142
6.3 Nominatives, subjects, and subject formation......Page 149
6.4 Partitives and genitives......Page 154
6.5 Conclusion......Page 160
7.1 Grounding and its loss......Page 162
7.2 Subjecthood and the non-universality of syntax......Page 164
7.3 The function of subjects and other grammatical relations......Page 171
7.4 The continuum of grammatical relations......Page 175
7.5 Ergativity and agentivity......Page 180
7.6 Conclusion......Page 189
8.1 ‘Case’ as a functional category......Page 191
8.2 Functional categories......Page 194
8.3 Kurylowicz’s problem......Page 200
8.4 Complex cases: Hjelmslev on Tabasaran......Page 225
8.5 Conclusion and consequences......Page 231
9.1 ‘Macroroles’......Page 233
9.2 Participants and circumstantials......Page 241
9.3 The ineluctability of semantic relations......Page 258
9.4 Conclusion......Page 286
Part III: Case Grammar as a Notional Grammar......Page 292
10 Groundedness: The Typicality of Case......Page 294
10.1 The groundedness of word classes......Page 296
10.2 The syntactic-categorial structure of words......Page 307
10.3 Nominal structure......Page 319
10.4 Conclusion: ‘notional grammar’......Page 337
11 Argument-Sharing I: Raising......Page 340
11.1 Autonomy and transformations......Page 344
11.2 The role of the absolutive......Page 347
11.3 Conclusion......Page 361
12.1 The role of the absolutive......Page 362
12.2 Locative control: tough-movement, passives, and causatives......Page 379
12.3 Conclusion......Page 392
13.1 Retrospect......Page 394
13.2 Lexical structure......Page 398
13.3 Creativity and notionalism......Page 425
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