Re: THEORY: Why more than two grammatical relations?

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:21:34 -0400, Eldin Raigmore <eldin_raigmore@...> wrote:

>Thanks for your latest reply.
>Take a look at <
>http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAnIndirectObject.htm >
>for differences between, on the one hand, direct and indirect objects, and, on
>the other hand, indirect objects and obliques.
>And look at
>< http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/~jbeavers/alternations-abstract.txt >
>or
>< http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/~jbeavers/semfest-handout.pdf >
>for differences between objects and obliques.
Thanks for the references. So the terms seem to be simpler than what I searched for: The
difference between "core" and "oblique" denominates the difference between unmarked and
prepositional phrases in English. No wonder I had troubles to figure out what might be the
German equivalent. I also get the impression that the term "grammatical relation" is better
suited for a language such as English that doesn't have case marks.

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