Concrete Cases in the Didactic of Latins

Abstract

It is relatively recently that in the theory of cases, and indirectly in the theory of propositional parts, appeared the terminological and conceptual pair: grammatical cases and concrete cases. It was Heinz (1965) who dealt with it ex professo. He pointed to its relations with another pair of terms, that is: object and adverbial. Two relatively new concepts-terms with difficulty pave their way to the studies of syntax, no matter Polish or Latin. Their introduction to syntactical Latin handbooks ensure a more adequate, therefore more precise and accurate, approach to respective linguistic material, and at the same time it would make its presentation clearer. These are the two reasons: one content-related, and the other didactic, why we should be more interested in distinguishing grammatical cases from concrete cases. Moreover, this distinction would render it possible to have a joint view, that is a more synthetic and synoptic, of the grammatical interrelated issues of Latin. We mean here some syntactic perceptions on the semantics of cases and on the parts of sentence.