The syntax of adjuncts / / Thomas Ernst [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Ernst Thomas Boyden
• 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.: 9910823239803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge studies in linguistics ; ; 96.