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

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

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

A study of the different roles which nouns play in the event or state expressed by the verb or adjective with which they are associated. The book explores withi

Based on data from a wide range of languages, the book discusses the ways in which case interacts with meaning.