A Probe into the Internal Logic of Fillmore's Linguistic Theories

Charles J. Fillmore has made great achievements in syntactic, lexical and semantic study. He proposed case grammar in the 1960s, frame semantics in the mid 1970s, and construction grammar in the late 1980s. His three theories are progressive layer by layer and are inherited from a common one. And the form, relation and formula are the common basis of the three theories. In addition, the study of framework is the key factor and hidden line which runs through them. Through the link of framework, the three theories can be studied in one system, which leads to a new “construction-expanded frame-net”.