Modifying Adjuncts

by Lang, Ewald

• ISBN13: 9783110173529
• ISBN10: 3110173522
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter

Summary

Unlike the notion of »argument« that is central to modern linguistic theorizing, the phenomena that are commonly subsumed under the complementary notion »adjunct« so far have not attracted the attention they deserve. In this volume, leading experts in the field present current approaches to the grammar and pragmatics of adjuncts. Among other things, the contributions scrutinize the argument-adjunct distinction, specify conditions of adjunct placement, discuss compositionality issues, and propose new analyses of event-related modification. They are meant to shed new light on an area of linguistic structure that is deemed to be notoriously overlooked.

Table of Contents

Modifying (the grammar of) adjuncts: An introduction	1	(32)
Ewald Lang
Claudia Maienborn
Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen
Part A: The argument-adjunct distinction
The dual analysis of adjuncts/complements in Categorial Grammar	33	(34)
David Dowty
Genitives, relational nouns, and argument-modifier ambiguity	67	(46)
Barbara H. Partee
Vladimir Borschev
Heads, complements, adjuncts: Projection and saturation	113	(50)
Manfred Bierwisch
Part B: Adjunct placement
Syntactic conditions on adjunct classes	163	(48)
Werner Frey
``Manner'' adverbs and the association theory: Some problems and solutions	211	(50)
Benjamin Shaer
Manner adverbs and information structure: Evidence from the adverbial modification of verbs of creation	261	(46)
Regine Eckardt
Semantic features and the distribution of adverbs	307	(28)
Thomas Ernst
Clause-final left-adjunction	335	(30)
Inger Rosengren
Part C: Case studies on wieder/again
Process, eventuality, and wieder/again	365	(28)
Karin Pittner
Competition and interpretation: The German adverb wieder (`again')...	393	(24)
Gerhard Jager
Reinhard Blutner
How are results represented and modified? Remarks on Jager & Blutners's anti-decomposition	417	(38)
Arnim von Stechow
Part D: Flexibility of eventuality-related modification
Event arguments, adverb selection, and the Stative Adverb Gap	455	(20)
Graham Katz
Event-internal modifiers: Semantic underspecification and conceptual interpretation	475	(36)
Claudia Maienborn
Flexibility in adverbal modification: Reinterpretation as contextual enrichment	511	(42)
Johannes Dolling
Secondary predication and aspectual structure	553	(38)
Susan Rothstein
Real adjuncts in the Instrumental in Russian	591	(36)
Assinja Demjjanow
Anatoli Strigin
German participle II constructions as adjuncts	627	(24)
Ilse Zimmermann
Subject index	651