Screen LibraryModifying adjuncts /
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...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ; Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
2013. ©2003 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Interface explorations [ie] ;
volume 4 |
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| Online Access: |
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| 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. |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
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1 online resource (vi, 657 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110894646 |
| Index Number: | P299 |
| CLC: | H04 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Modifying (the grammar of) adjuncts: an introduction / The dual analysis of adjuncts/complements in Categorial Grammar / Genitives, relational nouns, and argument-modifier ambiguity / Heads, complements, adjuncts: Projection and saturation / 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 adverbs / Clause-final left-adjunction / Process, eventuality, and wieder,/again / Competition and interpretation: The German adverb wieder ( again ) / How are results represented and modified? Remarks on J ger & Blutner s anti-decomposition / Event arguments, adverb selection, and the Stative Adverb Gap / Event-internal modifiers: Semantic underspecification and conceptual interpretation / Flexibility in adverbal modification: Reinterpretation as contextual enrichment / Secondary predication and aspectual structure / Real adjuncts in the Instrumental in Russian / German participle II constructions as adjuncts / Subject index. |