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Author | : Eva Engels |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027255644 |
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Adverb positions vary within a single language as well as across diverse languages. Based on the study of adverbs in English, French and German, this monograph shows that the distribution of adverbs is influenced by various factors at distinct levels of linguistic representation comprising semantics, syntax, phonology and information structure , which interact in determining adverb positions. The results of the investigation are formulated within the theoretical framework of Optimality Theory, which captures the complex interaction of these factors by hierarchically ranked constraints, deriving cross-linguistic variation of adverb positions by differences in the language-specific constraint hierarchies. The book is divided into two parts: While Part I examines adverb positions in general, Part II investigates under which circumstances an adverb may attach to a phonetically empty constituent in the languages under discussion. The book appeals to a linguistic audience interested in Germanic and Romance languages as well as in theoretical syntax in general.
Author | : Eva Engels |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2012-02-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 902728184X |
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Adverb positions vary within a single language as well as across diverse languages. Based on the study of adverbs in English, French and German, this monograph shows that the distribution of adverbs is influenced by various factors at distinct levels of linguistic representation – comprising semantics, syntax, phonology and information structure –, which interact in determining adverb positions. The results of the investigation are formulated within the theoretical framework of Optimality Theory, which captures the complex interaction of these factors by hierarchically ranked constraints, deriving cross-linguistic variation of adverb positions by differences in the language-specific constraint hierarchies. The book is divided into two parts: While Part I examines adverb positions in general, Part II investigates under which circumstances an adverb may attach to a phonetically empty constituent in the languages under discussion. The book appeals to a linguistic audience interested in Germanic and Romance languages as well as in theoretical syntax in general.
Author | : Jennifer R. Austin |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027227942 |
Download Adverbials Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Artemis Alexiadou |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 902722739X |
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This monograph investigates a number of central issues in the Syntax of Adverbs with special reference to Greek in the light of Kayne's (1994) Antisymmetry Hypothesis. It examines the conditions on the placement of the various adverb types, their licensing requirements, and their relation to adjectives. The author advances an analysis according to which adverbs are licensed as Specifiers of functional projections in the clausal domain. As such, they enter a matching relation with the relevant features of the respective functional head. Adverbs are either directly merged at the relevant functional projection (for instance Aspectual and Speaker Oriented adverbs) or alternatively they are moved to this position from the complement domain of the verb (for instance manner adverbs). Furthermore, the volume examines the phenomenon of Adverb Incorporation. It is proposed that Incorporation is obligatory for those VP internal Adverbs which are 'structuraly non-complex' in Chomsky's 1995 terms. Finally, the similarities and differences between adverbs and adjectives, clausal and nominal structure are investigated and a number of asymmetries between the two are highlighted.
Author | : Margaret G. Davis |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
Download Aspects of Adverbial Placement in English and Slovene Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Originally presented as author's thesis (Ph. D. Edvard Kardelj University of Ljubljana). Durchsuchbare elektronische Faksimileausgabe als PDF. Digitalisiert im Rahmen des DFG-Projektes Digi20 in Kooperation mit der BSB München. OCR-Bearbeitung durch den Verlag Otto Sagner.
Author | : Richard Russell Lee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Download Serial Position Effects of Adverb Placement Upon Recall Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Thomas Boyden Ernst |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Download Towards an Integrated Theory of Adverb Position in English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Sven Jacobson |
Publisher | : Stockholm : A.B. Studentbok |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Eva Engels |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2004 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Katalin É. Kiss |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2009-05-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110214806 |
Download Adverbs and Adverbial Adjuncts at the Interfaces Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book clarifies - on the basis of mainly Hungarian data - basic issues concerning the category ‘adverb,’ the function ‘adverbial,’ and the grammar of adverbial modification. It argues for the PP analysis of adverbials, and claims that they enter the derivation via left- and right-adjunction. Their merge-in position is determined by the interplay of syntactic, semantic, and prosodic factors. The semantically motivated constraints discussed also include a type restriction affecting adverbials semantically incorporated into the verbal predicate, an obligatory focus position for scalar adverbs representing negative values of bidirectional scales, cooccurrence restrictions between verbs and adverbials involving incompatible subevents, etc. The order and interpretation of adverbials in the postverbal domain is shown to be affected by such phonologically motivated constraints as the Law of Growing Constituents, and by intonation phrase restructuring. The shape of the light-headed chain arising in the course of locative PP incorporation is determined by morpho-phonological requirements. The types of adverbs and adverbials analyzed include locatives, temporals, comitatives, epistemic adverbs, adverbs of degree, manner, counting, and frequency, quantificational adverbs, and adverbial participles.