Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Grammar Case

Grammar Case 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 system was created by the American linguist Charles Fillmore in 1968 in the context of transformational grammar. This theory analyzes the surface syntactic structure of sentences by studing the combination of deep cases. Agent, Object, Benefactor, Location or Instrument which are required by a specific verb.

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