Modifying adjuncts

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.

Summary

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 propose new analyses of event-related modification. They are meant to shed new light on an area of linguistic structure that is deemed to be notoriously overlooked

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2003

Publication Statements

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

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (663 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9783110894646, 3110894645, 3110173522, 9783110173529
  • oclc:ocn861525919
  • LC Classification:P299.A32
  • Dewey Decimal:415

Table of Contents

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 -- “Manner� adverbs and the association theory: Some problems and solutions -- Manner adverbs and information structure: Evidence from the adverbial modification of verbs of creation

Semantic features and the distribution of adverbsClause-final left-adjunction -- Part C: Case studies on wieder/again -- Process, eventuality, and wieder/again -- Competition and interpretation: The German adverb wieder (�again�) -- How are results represented and modified? Remarks on J�ger & Blutners�s anti-decomposition -- Part D: Flexibility of eventuality-related modification -- Event arguments, adverb selection, and the Stative Adverb Gap -- Event-internal modifiers: Semantic underspecification and conceptual interpretation

Flexibility in adverbal modification: Reinterpretation as contextual enrichmentSecondary predication and aspe…

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Subjects

Adjoints (Linguistique) Adjunkt Adverbiale Argument Bepalingen (taalkunde) Formale Semantik Grammar, Comparative and general -- Adj… Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syn… Grammatische Kategorie LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar … LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguist… Modifikator Oslo <1999> Syntax Syntaxe Wortstellung

Writers

Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine Lang, Ewald Maienborn, Claudia

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