Adverbs and Functional Heads: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective

✍ Scribed by Guglielmo Cinque

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 287
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

One of the world's leading syntacticians presents evidence for locating Adverb Phrases in the specifiers of distinct functional projections within a novel and well articulated theory of the clause. In this theory, both adverbs and heads, which encode the functional notions of the clause, are ordered in a rigid sequence. Cinques cutting-edge proposal suggests that the structure of natural language sentences is much richer than previously assumed.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Abbreviations (page xi)
1 On the Relative Order of Adverb Phrases (page 3)
2 A Case for Adverb Phrases in Spec (page 44)
3 On the Order of Clausal Functional Heads (page 52)
4 Matching and Refining the Hierarchies of Adverb Phrases and Functional Heads (page 77)
5 DP-Related Functional Projections and Negative Phrases (page 108)
6 Some Implications and Residual Questions (page 127)
7 Conclusions (page 140)
Appendix 1 Some Remarks on Other Verbal Forms and Other Romance Varieties (page 142)
Appendix 2 A Synopsis of the Orders of Overt Functional Heads in Individual Languages (page 153)
Notes (page 167)
References (page 231)
Language Index (page 259)
Name Index (page 263)
Subject Index (page 267)