WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
case′ gram′mar, [Ling.]
- Linguisticsa form of generative grammar that views case roles, as agent, experiencer, instrument, and object, based on the semantic relationship of noun phrases to verbs, to be basic categories in deep structure and derives grammatical relations, as subject and direct object, from these case roles.
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