Grammar is the law of language. And as we all know, the human beings couldn’t probe deeply into the knowledge of language at the very beginning. Therefore according to the different knowledge in different times, the various grammar theories and works are produced. The beginning of English grammar probing is in the 16th and 17th century, and in the 20th century, a new grammar theory --- Case Grammar (CG) was put forward and got its climax in the 70s. 1.Definition Case Grammar refers to a system of grammatical description that based on the functional relations that noun groups have to the main verb of a sentence. In "Oxford linguistics dictionary" the definition is: variant of transformational grammar developed by C.J. Fillmore in the late 1960S.The central idea was that in any clause each noun phrase has, as one element at an underlying level, a ‘case’ represents its semantic role or case role. |