case grammar
noun Linguistics.
a form of generative grammar that views case roles, as agent, experiencer, instrument, and object, based on the semantic relationship of noun phrases to verbs, to be basic categories in deep structure and derives grammatical relations, as subject and direct object, from these case roles.
Words nearby case grammar
case card,
case ending,
case fatality rate,
case glass,
case goods,
case grammar,
case history,
case in point,
case knife,
case law,
case method
British Dictionary definitions for case grammar
case grammar
noun
linguistics
a system of grammatical description based on the functional relations that noun groups have to the main verb of a sentence
Compare systemic grammar, transformational grammar