Grammatical relations in universal grammar
Donald G. Frantz · Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics University of North Dakota Session · 1979
From the introduction: "[W]e shall look at a number of recurring language phenomena involving grammatical relations. Because most of these allow a universal formulation only in terms of relational networks rather than linear or constituent structures, we shall make use of Postal and Perlmutter's promising framework, generally referred to as Relational Grammar (RG)."