Date: 07-Sep-2009 From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com> Subject: Adverbs and Adverbial Adjuncts at the Interfaces: Kiss (Ed) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Adverbs and Adverbial Adjuncts at the Interfaces
Series Title: Interface Explorations [IE] 20
Published: 2009
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
http://www.mouton-publishers.com
Editor: Katalin É. Kiss
Electronic: ISBN: 9783110214802 Pages: 377 Price: U.S. $ 140.00 Comment: for orders placed in North America
Electronic: ISBN: 9783110214802 Pages: 377 Price: Europe EURO 110.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110214031 Pages: 377 Price: Europe EURO 99.95
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110214031 Pages: 377 Price: U.S. $ 140.00 Comment: for orders placed in North America
Abstract:
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, co-occurrence 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.
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