Modifying Adjuncts 1st Edition by Ewald Lang, Claudia Maienborn, Cathrine Fabricius Hansen ISBN 3110173522 9783110173529

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ISBN 10: 3110173522

ISBN 13: 9783110173529 

Author: Ewald Lang, Claudia Maienborn, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen 

Unlike the notion of »argument« that is central to modern linguistic theorizing, the phenomena that are commonly subsumed under the complementary notion »adjunct« so far have not attracted the attention they deserve. In this volume, leading experts in the field present current approaches to the grammar and pragmatics of adjuncts. Among other things, the contributions scrutinize the argument-adjunct distinction, specify conditions of adjunct placement, discuss compositionality issues, and propose new analyses of event-related modification. They are meant to shed new light on an area of linguistic structure that is deemed to be notoriously overlooked.

Table of contents:

Modifying (the grammar of) adjuncts: An introduction

Part A: The argument-adjunct distinction

The dual analysis of adjuncts/complements in Categorial Grammar

Genitives, relational nouns, and argument-modifier ambiguity

Heads, complements, adjuncts: Projection and saturation

Part B: Adjunct placement

Syntactic conditions on adjunct classes

“Manner” adverbs and the association theory: Some problems and solutions

Manner adverbs and information structure: Evidence from the adverbial modification of verbs of creation

Semantic features and the distribution of adverbs

Clause-final left-adjunction

Part C: Case studies on wieder/again

Process, eventuality, and wieder/again

Competition and interpretation: The German adverb wieder (‘again’)

How are results represented and modified? Remarks on Jager & Blutner’s anti-decomposition

Part D: Flexibility of eventuality-related modification

Event arguments, adverb selection, and the Stative Adverb Gap

Event-internal modifiers: Semantic underspecification and conceptual interpretation

Flexibility in adverbal modification: Reinterpretation as contextual enrichment

Secondary predication and aspectual structure

Real adjuncts in the Instrumental in Russian

German participle II constructions as adjuncts

Subject index

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