Adverbs and Particles at the Form-Meaning Interface.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coniglio, Marco.

Series:

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today Series

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today Series ; v.292

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Historical linguistics.

Genre:

Essays

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2026.

Summary:

This book offers a comprehensive investigation of two word classes that play a crucial role at the interfaces and have posed challenges for linguistic theory. This volume will be highly relevant to theoretical and historical linguists, particularly those interested in the interaction of form and meaning.

Contents:

Intro

Table of contents

Adverbs and particles at the form-meaning interface

1. The categories "adverb" and "particle"

2. Adverbs and particles from a morphosyntactic perspective

3. Adverbs and particles from a syntactic, semantic and pragmatic perspective

4. Content of the volume

4.1 On the morphosyntax of adverbs and particles

4.2 Studies at the syntax-semantics interface

References

Part I On the syntax of adverbs and particles

From adverb to modal particle

1. Introduction

2. Restitutive wieder as a process adverb

3. Repetitive wieder as an event-related adverb

4. Diachronic development

5. From adverb to modal particle

6. Other temporal adverbs as remind-me particles

7. Combinations of modal particles

8. Modal particles in subordinate clauses

9. Conclusions

Acknowledgements

Corpora

Manner adverbs in -mente from Latin to Brazilian Portuguese

2. The X-mente formation from Latin to BP

3. Theoretical model

4. Literature review

4.1 The category of adverbs

4.2 The internal structure of X-mente formations

5. Analysis

6. Final thoughts

Wise adverbs and the functional hierarchy

2. The research questions

3. Semantic properties of wise adverbs

4. The structure of wise adverbs

5. Wise adverbs do not contain verbal projections

6. A puzzle

7. Conclusion

Sentence adverbs and modal particles in Basque

2. Basque modal particles are not modal particles

3. On sentence adverbs in Basque

4. Are there modal particles in Basque after all?

5. Summary and outlook

Funding

Adverbial adjectives vs. adjective-adverbs

2. Students' classification of AAs.

3. Properties of AAs and arguments for their parts of speech assignment

3.1 Q7

3.2 Q1 and Q2

3.3 Q4 and Q8

3.4 Q6

3.5 Q3 and Q5

4. Possible solutions

5. Conclusion

Online resources

Research literature

Diagnosing features in syntactic derivation

2. The category criterion across distinct domains

2.1 The extended projection of the verb

2.2 The extended projection of the verb

2.3 The extended projection of the Noun and the category criterion

3. Expanding the criterion

3.1 On the role of adverbs in diagnosing some of the features involved in the 'discourse marker' use of capaz in Brazilian Portuguese

3.2 On the role of adverbs in diagnosing some of the features involved in the detelicisation of telic events

3.3 On the role of adverbs in diagnosing some of the features involved in wh-exclamatives in Brazilian Portuguese

4. In guise of conclusion

Adverbs and non-arguments in the Left Periphery

2. Locality and non-arguments in the Left Periphery

2.1 Intervention locality as a diagnostic tool for comparing models

2.2 Locality in adverbs

2.3 Base-generation or movement?

2.3.1 BG-nA

2.3.2 MOVE-nA

3. Quantifying the hypotheses

Hypothesis

4. Materials and methods

Materials

Methods

5. Results and discussion

6. Conclusions

Part II Studies at the syntax-semantics interface

Adverb placement and V-raising in heritage Greek

2. Heritage speakers and adverb placement

3. Verb movement in English, German and Greek

4. Research questions

5. Methodology

6. Results

7. Discussion

8. Conclusion

Syntactic and semantic flexibility among adverbials

2. Basic assumptions.

3. Adverbial interpretations and distribution

4. Control interpretations and distribution

5. Concluding remarks

Climbing up the context - from temporal adverb to discourse particle

2. Jetzt

2.1 Temporal and discourse use of jetzt

2.2 Status of the discourse jetzt

3. The semantic orientations of jetzt

3.1 Temporal orientations of jetzt

3.2 Discourse orientations of jetzt

3.3 Parallelism of the three orientations for both uses of jetzt

4. Indexical semantics for temporal jetzt

4.1 Core ideas of indexical semantics

4.2 Two variants of semantics for temporal expressions

4.3 Temporal indexicals semantics with time intervals

5. Discourse semantics for discoursive jetzt

5.1 Discourse hierarchy and D-trees

5.2 Precedence and D-tree

5.3 Explicit and implicit discourse moves

5.4 Discourse semantics and orientations for jetzt

6. Speculations on the grammaticalization of jetzt

7. Summary

On the arguments for analyzing adverbs as PPs

2. The PP analysis of adverbs

2.1 The morpheme -ly as a nominal root

2.2 The internal structure of -ly adverbs as PPs

3. Accounting for other facts

3.1 Degree modifiers

3.2 Synthetic comparatives and superlatives

3.3 Further derivational suffixation

3.4 The syntactic distribution of adverbs

4. Conclusion

Sentence adverbs based on parenthetical clauses

2. Placement of adverbs, parentheticals, and subordinating constructions

3. From parenthetical clause to sentence adverb

3.1 Sentence adverbs based on V2-parentheticals in Modern German

3.2 Diachronic development

3.3 Sentence adverbs based on V1-parentheticals

3.4 Interim summary

4. Alternative routes.

4.1 Matrix-clause + that-complement?

4.2 Integration from the right?

4.3 Integration from the left?

5. Syntactic vs. pragmatic factors

6. Conclusion

Modal particles with adverb properties in German and Dutch

2. Intensification of modal particles in German and Dutch

2.1 Intensification in German

2.2 Intensification in Dutch

2.3 MP intensifiers in German and Dutch

3. Diminutives as modal particles in Dutch

4. Discussion and outlook

Sources of the internet examples

Discourse relations and temporal adjuncts in written Present-Day English

2. Adjuncts in English

3. Continuative and contrastive discourse relations

4. Data and methodology

5. Results

5.1 Quantitative analysis

5.2 Interaction between variables

6. Discussion and conclusion

Primary source

Secondary sources

Appendix. List of temporal adjuncts underlying present study

On different types of adverbial clauses appearing outside of their hosts

2. Different types of externally appearing adverbial clauses

3. A typology of dependent non-argument clauses

4. A fundamental distinction between ExtAdvCls and its consequences

5. On the external syntax of W-ExtAdvCls and D-ExtAdvCls

6. On alleged counterexamples to the claim that ExtAdvCls cannot occur clause-internally

Index.

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ISBN:

90-272-4392-1

9789027243928

OCLC:

1581933469