Thomas Ernst

The Syntax of Adjuncts

Herausgeber: Anderson, S. R.; Bresnan, J.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. A wide range of adverbial types is analyzed; predicational adverbs (such as manner, and modal adverbs), domain expressions such as financially, temporal, frequency, duration, and focusing adverbials; participant PP's (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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 911g
• ISBN-13: 9780521028189
• ISBN-10: 0521028183
• Artikelnr.: 21050604

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
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
Notes
References
Indexes.