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Case grammar is a linguistic theory that analyzes the deep semantic roles (or cases) that verbs, adjectives and nouns assign to other elements in a sentence. It was developed by Charles Fillmore in the 1960s and uses a model influenced by formal logic to represent sentences as consisting of a verb and the semantic roles assigned to noun phrases. Case grammar views grammatical functions like subject and object as determined by the deep semantic valence of verbs. It aims to make explicit the basic meaning rel
- Author
- Bel Sterling
- Language
- EN