Adverbials and the phase model
by Biskup, Petr
This monograph addresses two issues, phases and adverbials. It proposes that there is a correlation between the phase structure, the tripartite quantificational structure and the information structure of the sentence. This correlation plays an important role not only in referential and information-structural properties of arguments and the verb but also in adverbial properties. For instance, the study shows that certain sentence adverbials can occur in the sentence-final position in the vP phas…
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- Full title :Adverbials and the phase model / Petr Biskup.
Summary
This monograph addresses two issues, phases and adverbials. It proposes that there is a correlation between the phase structure, the tripartite quantificational structure and the information structure of the sentence. This correlation plays an important role not only in referential and information-structural properties of arguments and the verb but also in adverbial properties. For instance, the study shows that certain sentence adverbials can occur in the sentence-final position in the vP phase when they represent the extreme value with respect to the set of focus alternatives. The proposed c.
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- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):John Benjamins Pub. Co
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (ix, 235 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789027255600, 9027255601, 9789027287052, 9027287058, 1283122057, 9781283122054, 9786613122056, 661312205X
- oclc:ocn727942781
- LC Classification:P284
- Dewey Decimal:445/.76
Table of Contents
Adverbials and the Phase Model; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Phrasal movement; Chapter 3. Verb movement and architecture of the CP phase; Chapter 4. Adverbials in the sentence-final position in the vP phase; Chapter 5. Hierarchy and movement of adverbials; Chapter 6. Adjunction, Condition C and the Background Adjunct Coreference Principle; Conclusions; References; Name index; Subject index.
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