01665 a2200277 4500 1138624381 20250317100409.0 250312042021GB eng 9781138624382 Taylor & Francis GBP 33.99 BB 01 eng CFK thema CBX thema CFK bic CBX bic LIT000000 bisac LIT024030 bisac 415 bisac John Anderson On Case Grammar Prolegomena to a Theory of Grammatical Relations 1 Oxford Routledge 20210331 318 p Originally published in 1977, On Case Grammar , represents a synthesis of various lines of research, with special regard to the treatment of grammatical relations. Arguments are assessed for and against case grammar, localism, lexical decomposition and relational grammar. The book surveys the important evidence to support the validity of the choice of a case grammar as the most satisfactory of current accounts of the notion of grammatical relations. This evidence is derived from a detailed examination of various processes in English and from a typological comparison of other languages, notably Dyirbal and Basque. The book also looks at the establishment of principled limitation on the set of case relations. Lexical, syntactical, semantic and morphological evidence suggests that the set of cases is in conformity with the predictions of a strong form of the localist hypothesis, which requires that case relations be distinguished in terms of source vs. goal vs. location. 2175 2175