Adverbials : the interplay between meaning, context, and syntactic structure / edited by Jennifer R. Austin, Stefan Engelberg, Gisa Rauh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Austin, Jennifer R.

Engelberg, Stefan.

Rauh, Gisa.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 70.

Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 70

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Adverbials.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub., 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Adverbials have become an important testing ground for research on the interfaces between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The articles selected for this volume present recent research on this topic. Among the issues addressed are the occurrence of adverbials in various domains of the sentence Mittelfeld, left and right periphery, adverbials in front of gaps, and the influence of the discourse context on the interpretation and position of adverbials. Particular classes of adverbials that are discussed include domain, locative, temporal, manner, transparent, and degree adverbials. Beyond the exploration of these topics, the volume reflects the current debate between proponents of semantic-driven approaches to the positioning of adverbials which assume adverbials to be adjuncts and approaches that claim a primacy of syntax in conceiving of adverbials as specifiers in a universally valid hierarchy of functional projections.

Contents:

Adverbials

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

Addresses

Foreword

Current issues in the syntax and semantics of adverbials

1. Introduction

2. Fundamental phenomena and debates

2.1. Basic phenomena of adverbial order

2.2. Heads, complements, specifiers, and adjuncts

2.3. Adverbials as specifiers

2.4. Adverbials as adjuncts

3. Syntactic and semantic classes of adverbials

3.1. Classifying adverbials

3.2. Manner adverbials

3.3. Locative adverbials

3.4. Domain adverbials

4. Structural intricacies

4.1. More phenomena

4.2. Adverbials and gaps

4.3. Right periphery and mirror order

4.4. Left periphery and discourse connection

5. Categorial issues

5.1. Adverbs, AdvPs, and adverbials

5.2. Adverbs and adjectives

5.3. Adverbs and adverbials outside the verbal domain

6. Conclusion and outlook

Notes

References

Circumstantial adverbs and aspect*

1. The syntax and semantics of manners and locatives

2. Some further data

3. Recent accounts

4. An alternative

5. Conclusion

Optimizing adverb placement in gap constructions*

Overview

1. Data

2. Previous approaches

2.1. Baker (1971, 1981)

2.2. Sag (1978, 1980), Sag and Fodor (1995), Kim and Sag (1996, 2002)

2.3. Empty Category Principle approaches

2.4. Summary

3. An Optimality Theoretic approach

3.1. Adverb placement: flexibility and restrictions

3.2. Wh-Movement, Fronting, and VP Ellipsis

3.3. Adverb placement in gap constructions

3.4. Adverb placement in French gap constructions

4. Conclusion

Domain adverbs and the syntax of adjuncts*

2. The semantics of domain adverbs

2.1. Regular readings

2.2. Topic readings

2.3. Conclusion

3. Syntax

3.1. Theories of adjunct syntax.

3.2. Topic readings of domain adverbs

3.3. A Note on alternative orders

4. Theoretical implications

4.1. An argument for the semantically based account of adverb distribution

4.2. A second argument

Depictives and transparent adverbs

2. Depictives and events

2.1. The syntax of depictives

2.2. The temporal interpretation of depictives

2.3. Depictive constructions as complex events?

3. Manner adverbs and transparent adverbs

4. The semantics of transparent adverbs and depictives

4.1. Ernst (2002)

4.2. Minimal pairs

4.3. Transparent adverbs as event-dependent states

4.4. Choosing between adverbs and depictives

5. Grammatical contrasts between adverbs and depictives

5.1. Complementation

5.2. Orientation

5.3. Control in passives

6. Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Degree Phrases versus Quantifier Phrases in prenominal and preverbal positions

1.1. A class of their own

1.2. DegP

1.3. Split-DegP

2. The distribution and licensing of adjectival and adverbial projections containing headed DegPs and QPs

2.1. Headed DegP and QP in right-peripheral positions

2.2. Raising from the right to the left periphery within extended nominal projections

2.3. Distributional asymmetries between QPs and DegPs

3. Towards an explanation

3.1. The syntax of result clauses and the interpretation of DegP and QP

3.2. Deg-heads as predicate parasites

Other Sources:

A feature-based theory of adverb syntax*

2. Theoretical background

3. Adverbs in the Mittelfeld

3.1. French

3.2. German

4. Adverbs in the Nachfeld: The case of French (and English)

4.1. The order [verb adverb complement]

4.2. Sentence-final adverbs.

5. Adverbs in the Vorfeld

5.1. The order [Adv Subj V] vs. [Subj Adv V] in Romance and English

5.2. Adverbs in the German Vorfeld

Where syntax and semantics meet

2. Some properties of the German middle field

3. Tests for base positions

3.1. Focus projection

3.2. Theme-rheme condition

3.3. Complex frontings

3.4. Quantifier scope

3.5. Existentially interpreted w-pronouns

4. Adverbial positions in the middle field

4.1. Directional adverbials

4.2. Manner adverbials

4.3. Instrumentals and comitatives

4.4. Mental attitude

4.5. Locatives

4.6. Temporals

4.7. Causals

4.8. Sentence adverbials

5. A look at other approaches

6. Mirror images: Adverbials in final position in English and in the German extraposition field

7. Summary

Left/right contrasts among English temporal adverbials*

Introduction

1. Some left/right contrasts

1.1. Scope asymmetries

1.2. ``Up-to-now'' and ``existential'' interpretations with the present perfect

1.3. ``Position definiteness'' asymmetries

1.4. ``Reference time'' and ``event time'' asymmetries

2. The syntax of LP temporal adverbials

3. Temporal adverbials and Aktionsart

4. Toward a discourse account of LP temporal adverbials

Author index

Subject index

The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612160349

9781282160347

1282160346

9789027295330

9027295336

OCLC:

1491310066