Positions and interpretations : German adverbial adjectives at the syntax-semantics interface / Martin Schäfer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schäfer, Martin, 1975-

Series:

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 245

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German language--Verb.

German language.

German language--Adverbials.

German language--Syntax.

German language--Semantics.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 236 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The structural and semantic properties of adverbials represent a still poorly understood area of sentential syntax and semantics in Germanic languages. In particular, it is an open question which different adverbial usages need to be distinguished, which usages are tied to which syntactic positions, and how these different usage can be formally analyzed. Focusing on adverbial adjectives in German, this study provides detailed answers to these questions. By distinguishing between verb-related adverbials and event-related adverbials, the author provides a new analysis of the large class of adverbials traditionally labelled as manner adverbials. It is shown that the two different classes are linked to different syntactic positions, and formal analyses and derivations for the two different usages are developed. The book is therefore of interest not only to anyone working on the linguistics of German but also to all linguists working on the syntax-semantics interface and the formal analysis of adverbials.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface and acknowledgements

Abbreviations and notational conventions

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The readings of sentence adverbials

Chapter 3: The readings of verb-related adverbials

Chapter 4: Event-related adverbials

Chapter 5: The syntactic position of manner adverbials

Chapter 6: Adverbials in formal semantics: The classical analyses

Chapter 7: The semantic analysis of verb-related adverbials

Chapter 8: Summary and outlook

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-232) and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9783110278286

3110278286

OCLC:

851970084