case grammar

English

Noun

case grammar (countable and uncountable, plural case grammars)

1. Any of a class of grammars that focus on the link between the valence of a verb and the grammatical context it requires.
   • 2006, Eva-Maria Graf, The Ontogenetic Development of Literal and Metaphorical Space in Language, page 6:

     Other theoretical approaches that stress the primacy of space or spatial meaning in language with respect to other domains or meanings are localism and case grammar.