Anderson’s case grammar and the history of localism

Abstract

Theories" 12 This is not really surprising given that, according to Anderson "semantic representations are constructed out of predications that are locational or directional or non-locative non-directional" (Anderson 1973b: 10). 13 To be precise, Gruber distinguishes "causative agents" (John entered the sparrow into the cage) and "permissive agents" (John let the bird out of the cage) (Gruber's examples; 1965: 225f.). 14 This principle is abandoned in Fillmore (1969). For a discussion on the repetition of identical cases in a predication, cf. for example Starosta (1978). 15 It should be noted that in more recent texts Gruber has moved to the same position as Jackendoff : his roles are now specified with respect to argument positions of conceptual predicates (Gruber 1997a/b, Gruber 2001). Thanks to R. Boehm for having pointed this out to me.

Gesture, spatial cognition and the evolution of language

“…R. Soc. B 378: 20210481 spatial concepts play a central role in structuring grammar and semantics [36]. For example, the German philologists of the nineteenth century observed that nearly all the grammatical cases in Greek, Latin and Sanskrit had spatial origins, meaning 'to', 'from', 'at' and so on, before becoming generalized into abstract grammatical cases like datives, accusatives and genitives.…”