Re: Core case roles

En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:

>
> What definition of an "oblique case" are you using here? The one I
> learnt is
> a "non-nominative case", which admittedly appears pretty pointless.
>
It would mean that accusative is an "oblique" case, which is a view I've never
even seen anywhere. I take "oblique" as meaning "non-core", or "optional" (in
the sense that an oblique case is never to be mandatorily present to get a
grammatically correct sentence, even though it may be needed for it to be
meaningful). Of course, in the case of semantic roles, "oblique" simply
means "non-core". Theory has to provide us with the exact core roles.

Christophe.

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