Chapter published in:
Adjective Adverb Interfaces in RomanceEdited by Martin Hummel and Salvador Valera
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 242] 2017
► pp. 329–363
Adverbial adjectives and the decomposition of event predicates
Ave lina Suñer | University of Girona
This article provides an analysis of the so-called “adverbial adjectives” in Romance on the basis of a theory of syntactic decomposition of the event predicate by using Hale & Keyser’s Configurational Theory of Argument Structure. The first part establishes a hierarchy of adverbial adjectives according to the different levels of the argument structure of the predicate they are related to. The last section analyses the structural conditions determining the alternation between adverbial adjectives and secondary predicates. The article claims that the non-agreeing properties and the particular semantic interpretation of adverbial adjectives are the result of the interaction between their own lexical and semantic features and the portion of the internal structure of the event predicate they are associated with.
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Published online: 21 December 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.242.13sun
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.242.13sun
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