
Title:
Modifying Adjuncts
Author:
Bierwisch, Manfred, contributor.
ISBN:
9783110894646
Edition:
Reprint 2013
Physical Description:
1 online resource (657 p.) : Zahlr. Abb.
Series:
Interface Explorations [IE] , 4
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Modifying (the grammar of) adjuncts: an introduction -- Part A: The argument-adjunct distinction -- The dual analysis of adjuncts/complements in Categorial Grammar -- Genitives, relational nouns, and argument-modifier ambiguity -- Heads, complements, adjuncts: Projection and saturation -- Part Β: Adjunct placement -- Syntactic conditions on adjunct classes -- "Manner" adverbs and the association theory: Some problems and solutions -- Manner adverbs and information structure: Evidence from the adverbial modification of verbs of creation -- Semantic features and the distribution of adverbs -- Clause-final left-adjunction -- Part C: Case studies on wieder/again -- Process, eventuality, and wieder,/again -- Competition and interpretation: The German adverb wieder ('again') -- How are results represented and modified? Remarks on Jäger & Blutner's anti-decomposition -- Part D: Flexibility of eventuality-related modification -- Event arguments, adverb selection, and the Stative Adverb Gap -- Event-internal modifiers: Semantic underspecification and conceptual interpretation -- Flexibility in adverbal modification: Reinterpretation as contextual enrichment -- Secondary predication and aspectual structure -- Real adjuncts in the Instrumental in Russian -- German participle II constructions as adjuncts -- Subject index
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