Adverbs and Adverbial Adjuncts at the Interfaces

✍ Scribed by Katalin E. Kiss

• Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 387
• Series: Interface Explorations
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book investigates - mainly on the basis of Hungarian data - the grammar of adverbs and adverbial adjuncts, among them locatives, temporals, comitatives, epistemic adverbs, adverbs of degree, manner, counting, and frequency, quantificational adverbs, and adverbial participles. In the spirit of the Minimalist research program, the analyses focus on the impact of semantic and phonological requirements on adverbial syntax.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
1. Introduction......Page 10
Merge-in position and interpretation
......Page 28
2. Syntactic, semantic, and prosodic factors determining the position of adverbial adjuncts......Page 30
3. ‘‘Incorporated’’ locative adverbials in Hungarian......Page 48
4. The syntax of Hungarian -vA adverbial participles: A single affix with variable merge-in locations......Page 84
5. Adverbial (dis)ambiguities. Syntactic and prosodic features of ambiguous predicational adverbs......Page 112
6. Temporal adverbial clauses with or without operator movement......Page 142
Questions of category and grammatical function
......Page 178
7. Adverbial versus adjectival constructions with BE......Page 180
8. Obligatory adjuncts licensing Definiteness Effect constructions......Page 206
9. Comitative adjuncts: appositives and non-appositives......Page 240
Adverbials and event structure
......Page 254
10. Types of temporal adverbials and the fine structure of events......Page 256
11. Aspect and adverb interpretation – the case of quickly......Page 278
Interaction with focus
......Page 304
12. Scalar adverbs in and out of focus......Page 306
13. Adverbs of quantification, it-clefts and Hungarian focus......Page 326
Backmatter
......Page 358