Re: Secret Agents or Agent Secrets?

On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Jim Grossmann wrote:

> Where can I find good laymen's definitions of case grammar terms?
>
When I wrote my previous reply, I hadn't seen this question.
You really would enjoy Palmer's book, _Grammatical roles and
relations_, which is available from Amazon and not too dear.
Palmer is not only a competent and wise linguist, he writes miles
better than most other linguists, and his book starts out from
the basics, so anyone should be able to follow his argument.

Blake's _Case_ (in the same Cambridge University Press series,
textbooks in Linguistics) might appeal to you too, but it is
very much concerned with the whole cornucopia of cases, and less
with the core grammatical relations of subject, agent, patient.

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt