Abstract
The lexicase grammatical framework was developed by Stanley Sta-rosta and various students and colleagues primarily at the University of Hawaii beginning in 1970, and has been used since then in the description of more than 40 languages, mostly languages of Asia and the Pacific Basin. Lexicase is an outgrowth of Chomsky's standard theory and Fillmorean case grammer. It can be described as generative monostratal X-bar lexicalist dependency localistic case grammar. It claims to be more formal and explicit than other grammatical theories which are generally considered to be generative, and simpler, less powerful and more insightful than other current comprehensive grammatical frameworks.
From the lexicase point of view, grammar is contained in the lexicon. When each lexical item is marked for the dependency relationships which it may contract with other words in a sentence, the lexicon itself generates the well-formed sentences of a language. A grammar then can be formulated in terms of the general statements which can be made about the relationships among features in the lexical entries of the words composing the lexicon of a language.
