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Anderson’s case grammar and the history of localism

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Published online: 12 December 2018
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This chapter pursues two main goals. The first is to contextualize the emergence of Anderson’s localist conception of case as well as the evolution of this conception after the formative years. The second goal is to retrace the development of localist ideas in the history of linguistics, focussing on significant landmarks which precede the modern era. It is suggested that localism gains a real foothold during the rise of empiricist ideas in the 17th and 18th centuries. Localist ideas get sufficiently entrenched after this period to be actively debated during the 19th century up to the time of Hjelmslev. This historical part ends with the rediscovery of localism in cognitive linguistics and in cognitively oriented lexical semantics.
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • 1.The context of Anderson’s theory
    • 1.1Fillmore on case grammar
    • 1.2Fillmore and the wider scientific context
    • 1.3Prelexical analysis
    • 1.4Gruber and Jackendoff on thematic relations
    • 1.5Anderson’s case grammar: The first steps
    • 1.6Anderson’s basic case ‘relations’
    • 1.7Complex case ‘relations’
    • 1.8Extension of local CRs to non-spatial domains
    • 1.9CRs and grammatical relations
  • 2.On the history of localism
    • 2.1On the origins of localism: Planudes?
    • 2.2The first localist analysis: Aristotle?
    • 2.3On physicalism
    • 2.4Some conditions favouring localism
    • 2.5On post-medieval semantic accounts of cases and prepositions
    • 2.6Empiricism and localism: Leibniz on particles
    • 2.7On prepositions and cases in Grammaire Générale
    • 2.8The heyday of case localism in Germany
    • 2.9Half-hearted localists
    • 2.10Localistophobics
    • 2.11Hjelmslev
    • 2.12Localist morphosyntactic structuring in cognitive linguistics
    • 2.13Localism in lexical semantics
  • 3.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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