Modifying adjuncts

by Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine Lang, Ewald Maienborn, Claudia

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Unlike the notion of "argument" that is central to modern linguistic theorizing, the phenomena that are commonly subsumed under the complementary notion "adjunct" so far have not attracted the attention they deserve. In this volume, leading experts in the field present current approaches to the grammar and pragmatics of adjuncts. Among other things, the contributions scrutinize the argument-adjunct distinction, specify conditions of adjunct placement, discuss compositionality issues, and propos…

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Full title :Modifying adjuncts / edited by Ewald Lang, Claudia Maienborn, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen.

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Publication Date:2003.

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Publisher(s):Mouton de Gruyter
Place of Publication:Berlin
Language:eng
Publication Date:2003.

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Description:1 ressource en ligne (663 p.).

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ISBN:9783110894646, 3110894645
oclc:ocn904306382
LC Classification:P299.A32
Dewey Decimal:415

""Modifying (the grammar of) adjuncts: An introduction""; ""Part A: The argument-adjunct distinction""; ""The dual analysis of adjuncts/complements in Categorial Grammar""; ""Genitives, relational nouns, and argument-modifier ambiguity""; ""Heads, complements, adjuncts: Projection and saturation""; ""Part B: Adjunct placement""; ""Syntactic conditions on adjunct classes""; ""â€œMannerâ€? adverbs and the association theory: Some problems and solutions""; ""Manner adverbs and information structure: Evidence from theadverbial modification of verbs of creation""

""Flexibility in adverbal modification: Reinterpretation as contextual enrichment""""Secondary predication and aspectual structure""; ""Real adjuncts in the Instrumental in Russian""; ""German participle IIconstructions as adjuncts""; ""Subject index""

""Semantic features and the distribution of adverbs""""Clause-final left-adjunction""; ""Part C: Case studies on wieder/again""; ""Process, eventuality, and wieder/again""; ""Competition and interpretation: The German adverb wieder (â€?againâ€?)""; ""How are results represented and modified? Remarks on JÃ?ger & Blutnersâ€?s anti-decomposition""; ""Part D: Flexibility of eventu…

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