%0 Journal Article %A O’Grady, William %T Foundations of a Theory of Case %D 1980 %J Studies in Language. International Journal sponsored by the Foundation “Foundations of Language” %V 4 %N 2 %P 229-248 %@ 0378-4177 %R https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.4.2.04ogr %I John Benjamins %X The category of case provides a characterization of inter-word relations based on a tripartite categorization of word-types. Individual case systems result from the interaction of a core of four basic inter-word relations with a number of other autonomous grammatical and semantic systems. Data from a number of languages are examined and the general implications of this framework are discussed. %U https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/sl.4.2.04ogr