Editor: Jennifer R. Austin, University of Wuppertal
Editor: Stefan Engelberg, University of Wuppertal
Editor: Gisa Rauh, University of Wuppertal
Hardback: ISBN: 9027227942 Pages: x, 346 pp. Price: Europe EURO 135.00
Hardback: ISBN: 1588115461 Pages: x, 346 pp. Price: U.S. $ 162.00
Abstract:
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.
Table of contents
Foreword ix
Current issues in the syntax and semantics of adverbials
Jennifer R. Austin, Stefan Engelberg and Gisa Rauh 1-44
Circumstantial adverbs and aspect
David Adger and George Tsoulas 45-66
Optimizing adverb placement in gap constructions
Eva Engels 67-101
Domain adverbs and the syntax of adjuncts
Thomas Ernst 103-129
Depictives and transparent adverbs
Wilhelm Geuder 131-166
Degree Phrases versus Quantifier Phrases in prenominal and preverbal
positions: A hybrid explanation for some distributional asymmetries
Dagmar Haumann 167-203
A feature-based theory of adverb syntax
Christopher Laenzlinger 205-252
Where syntax and semantics meet: Adverbial positions in the German middle
field
Karin Pittner 253-287
Left/right contrasts among English temporal adverbials
Benjamin Shaer 289-332
Author index 333
Subject index 337
Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
Semantics
Syntax
Subject Language(s): English (Language Code: ENG)
German, Standard (Language Code: GER)
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