By analyzing seven concrete models, the author examines each in regard to its logical structure, list of cases, derivational system, and use of covert case role

This book offers a new and compendious account of important verbal patterns in present-day English. Serving as a central source of data, it updates and refines

There are few linguistic phenomena that have seduced linguists so skillfully as grammatical case has done. Ever since Panini (4th Century BC), case has claimed

The case grammar model is essentially a description of predicates and the arguments required by the meaning of those predicates in the semantic description of s