Adverbs, events, and other things : issues in the semantics of manner adverbs / / Regine Eckardt

• Autore: Eckardt Regine
• Pubblicazione: Tübingen : , : M. Niemeyer Verlag, , 1998
• Edizione: Reprint 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (174 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Adverb
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-168).
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Ontology -- Chapter 3. Events and Their Names -- Chapter 4: Mereological Structure -- Chapter 5: Scope -- Chapter 6. Manner Adverbs and Word Order -- 7. Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: "Adverbs, Events, and Other Things" treats issues in the semantics of manner adverbs. Part I takes up the Davidsonian claim that manner adverbs are predicates of events. The book investigates the subtle interplay of event individuation and various kinds of event modification and claims that manner adverbs play a core rôle in singling out both simple and complex events. Part II of the book is devoted to word order phenomena involving manner adverbs in German. Presenting a general theory of predication structure for German sentences, the author shows how the position of manner adverbs - in interplay with other factors - determines the division of an utterance into topic and comment. She thereby gives semantic evidence in favour of the claim that manner adverbs in German have a syntactic base position.
• Titolo autorizzato: Adverbs, events, and other things
• ISBN: 3-11-091378-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809891203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ; ; 379.