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Autore: | Ernst Thomas Boyden |
Titolo: | The syntax of adjuncts / / Thomas Ernst [[electronic resource]] |
Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xii, 555 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina: | 415 |
Soggetto topico: | Grammar, Comparative and general - Adverbials |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Adjuncts | |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax | |
Semantics | |
Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
Nota di contenuto: | 1. Introduction -- 2. The Semantics of Predicational Adverbs -- 3. The Scopal Basis of Adverb Licensing -- 4. Arguments for Right-Adjunction -- 5. Noncanonical Orders and the Structure of VP -- 6. Event-Internal Adjuncts -- 7. Adjunct Licensing in the AuxRange -- 8. Adjuncts in Clause-Initial Projections -- 9. Conclusions and Prospects. |
Sommario/riassunto: | This book proposes a theory of the distribution of adverbial adjuncts in a Principles and Parameters framework, claiming that there are few syntactic principles specific to adverbials; rather, for the most part, adverbials adjoin freely to any projection. Adjuncts' possible hierarchical positions are determined by whether they can receive a proper interpretation, according to their selectional (including scope) requirements and general compositional rules, while linear order is determined by hierarchical position along with a system of directionality principles and morphological weight, both of which apply generally to adjuncts and all other syntactic elements. A wide range of adverbial types is analysed; predicational adverbs (such as manner, and modal adverbs), domain expressions like financially, temporal, frequency, duration and focusing adverbials; participant PPs (e.g. locatives and benefactives); resultative and conditional clauses, and others, taken primarily from English, Chinese, French and Italian, with occasional reference to others (such as German and Japanese). |
Titolo autorizzato: | Syntax of adjuncts |
ISBN: | 1-107-11924-3 |
1-280-42943-7 | |
9786610429431 | |
0-511-17592-2 | |
0-511-15661-8 | |
0-511-32548-7 | |
0-511-48625-1 | |
0-511-04950-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910454688003321 |
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