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Case grammar
Case grammar: Charles J. Fillmore's 1960s linguistic theory ('The Case for Case', 1968) analyzing sentences through universal deep cases like Agentive and Instrumental; later transformed by Fillmore into Frame Semantics.
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Logical form (linguistics)
Logical form (linguistics): a representation of a sentence's logical properties, in two senses: semantic (unambiguous logical-language formula) and syntactic (LF, a generative-grammar interface level derived from S-structure via quantifier raising).
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Thematic relation
Thematic relation (thematic role, semantic role, theta role): the semantic relation between a verb and its arguments, e.g. agent or patient; Dowty's 1991 proto-role theory replaced discrete roles with Proto-Agent and Proto-Patient property clusters.