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case grammar

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case grammar

Theory of language that proposes that the underlying structure should contain some sort of functional information about the roles of its components; thus in the sentence ‘The girl opened the door’, the phrase the girl would have the role of agent, not merely that of grammatical subject.
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In the 1960s, Case Grammar attempted to develop a functional sense of the parts of speech, substituting, for instance, subject with the more descriptive agent (Williams 120).
The four basic principles of grammar by Kratzke, Peter / Academic Exchange Quarterly
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