Syntax of Adjuncts

List of contents

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Ernst, Thomas (University of Massachusetts Ernst, Thomas Boyden Ernst, Ernst Thomas
• Assisted by: S. R. Anderson (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.2001
• EAN: 9780521771344
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77134-4
• No. of pages: 568
• Series: Cambridge Music Handbooks
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics