The syntactic case concept
dates back to the grammars of Ancient Greece
and Ancient Rome. It is a case whose main role is to indicate a relationship
between constituents. To put it otherwise, its role is to indicate a construction in
syntax. Thus genitive is a case which marks one noun as dependent on another, e.g.
John’s car. The conception of case as a marker of a syntactic relation or a
construction can be found in prescriptive, non-structural descriptive and structural
descriptive grammars. Prescriptivists spoke of the nominative, the dative, the
genitive, the accusative, and the ablative.
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