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whole vocabulary of predicating words in the language.

The list of cases


must be necessary and sufficient to classify all the verbs of a given lan-
guage, necessary in the sense that all the cases listed are needed to
classify the verbs, and sufficient, in the sense that no other cases are
needed. It will be examined whether Compound Verbs in Marathi create
some problem while assigning case frames.

IV.2.2 The Fillmore 1971 Model

)V.2.2.1 Background . The Fillmore 1971 model revised the deep struc-
ture and produced a new list of cases. This model was first presented in
the Linguistic Institute of 1970 and is summarized in Cook (1989: 16-27).
The revised model is also reflected in an article entitled 'Some problems
for case grammar' and presented it in the Georgetown University Round
Table on Languages and Linguistics in 1971. Later reminiscences by
Fillmore concerning his work are found in the author's preface to Prin-
ciples of Case Grammar (1975) and in The case for case reopened' in
Syntax and Semantics, volume 8 (1977). Walter Cook comments :

"The deep structure of Fillmore's 1971 model is charac-


terized by the absence of any modality constituent, the abandon-
ment of the right-to-left ordering of cases, and the absence of
case markers in deep structure. The deep structure now con-
sists of a verb and a series of cases ordered left-to-right in sub-
ject choice hierarchy order. The resulting structure resembles
the logical structures of generative semantics with two main dif-
ferences. First, the generative semantics structure uses only the
labels 5, V, and NP, whereas the case grammar structure replaces
the NP labels with case role labels. Second, the NP's in the
logical structures of generative semantics are ordered according
to the syntactic function they perform as subject, indirect object,
and direct object, whereas the case-labelled nouns are ordered
according to the subject choice hierarchy" (Cook, 1989: 34-35).

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