Perspectives of Spoken Grammar in Case Government

Abstract

This paper deals with analysing the case government as a grammar category and explaining the contradictions in its interpretation with the main postulates of cognitive linguistics. The main idea of the paper is that grammar is considered to be a by-product of the language use when reality reflected in language consciousness finds its way in language grammaticalisation. It is suggested that case and prepositional and case structures are not connected with concrete verbs, but they express semantic arguments at the level of sentence. As a result, the case government is considered as forms of realization of semantic arguments of the significative structure. Its choice is caused by the use of the language in social interaction by mental modelling the reality.