Chapter 3
Hierarchy in concept linking
Article outline
- 3.1Introductory remarks on grammatical hierarchies
- 3.2VMC and attribution hierarchies
- 3.2.1The ‘flatness’ of the VMC hierarchy
- 3.2.2The hierarchical flexibility of attribution
- 3.3Hierarchical aspects of perspectivizing and scope
- 3.3.1Hierarchical levels
- 3.3.2Scope differentiation for viewpoint and person-oriented manner adverbs
- 3.3.3Scope hierarchy vs. scope competition: How time and frequency adverbs, emphasizers and not-negation function
- 3.3.4The scope behavior of epistemic and deontic modals
- 3.4Interlocking hierarchies: An example
- 3.5Postscript on the notions of clause and complex sentence
- 3.5.1The notion of clause
- 3.5.2The notion of complex sentence
- •Narrow interpretation
- •Wide interpretation
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