Modern Grammars of Case [Hardcover]

This book addresses fundamental issues in linguistic theory, including the relation between formal and cognitive approaches, the autonomy of syntax, and the content of universal grammar. Professor Anderson focuses on the grammar of case relations and, after a critical history of modern grammars of case, explores unresolved issues in the field, including the degree to which syntactic categories are grounded in meaning and the notion of linguistic creativity. He sheds new light on the interactions between meaning and grammar. His argument will interest linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists.

1. Prologue
I The Tradition
2. The Classical Tradition and its Critics
3. Early Case Grammar
4. Case Grammar and the Demise of Deep Structure
5. The Identity of Semantic Relations
Part II The Implementation of the Category of Case
6. Localist Case Grammar
7. The Variety of Grammatical Relations
8. The Category of Case
9. The Functions of Functors
Part III Case grammar as a Notional Grammar
10. Groundedness: The Typicality of Case
11. Argument-Sharing I: Raising
12. Argument-Sharing II: Control
13. Epilogue: Case, Notionalism, Creativity, and the Lexicon

John M. Andersonis Emeritus Professor of English Language at the University of Edinburgh where he worked successively as a lecturer (1966-76), reader (1976-88), and professor (1988-2001). He has been a visiting professor at universities in Denmark, Poland, Greece, and Spain; and given lecture series in Italy, Belgium, Austria, the former Czechoslovakia, Germany, and Hungary. His books includeThe Grammar of Case(CUP, 1971);Old English Phonology(with Roger Lass, CUP, 1975);Principles of Dependency Phonology(with Colin J. Ewen, CUP, 1987);Linguistic Representation(Mouton de Gruyter, 1992); andA Notional Theory of Syntactic Categories(CUP, 1997). He lSU