The Grammar of Case: Towards a Localistic Theory (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Series Number 4) - Tapa dura

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 within the framework of transformational-generative grammar the 'localist hypothesis', which asserts that all the roles for nouns involve basically the notions of location and direction.