Adverbials

The interplay between meaning, context, and syntactic structure

Editors

Jennifer R. Austin | University of Wuppertal

Stefan Engelberg | University of Wuppertal

Gisa Rauh | University of Wuppertal

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Adverbials have become an important testing ground for research on the interfaces between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The articles selected for this volume present recent research on this topic. Among the issues addressed are the occurrence of adverbials in various domains of the sentence Mittelfeld, left and right periphery, adverbials in front of gaps, and the influence of the discourse context on the interpretation and position of adverbials. Particular classes of adverbials that are discussed include domain, locative, temporal, manner, transparent, and degree adverbials. Beyond the exploration of these topics, the volume reflects the current debate between proponents of semantic-driven approaches to the positioning of adverbials which assume adverbials to be adjuncts and approaches that claim a primacy of syntax in conceiving of adverbials as specifiers in a universally valid hierarchy of functional projections.

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 70] 2004. ix, 343 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 October 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.70

Table of Contents

Foreword | p. ix

Current issues in the syntax and semantics of adverbials

Jennifer R. Austin, Stefan Engelberg and Gisa Rauh | pp. 1–44

Circumstantial adverbs and aspect

David Adger and George Tsoulas | pp. 45–66

Optimizing adverb placement in gap constructions

Eva Engels | pp. 67–101

Domain adverbs and the syntax of adjuncts

Thomas Ernst | pp. 103–129

Depictives and transparent adverbs

Wilhelm Geuder | pp. 131–166

Degree Phrases versus Quantifier Phrases in prenominal and preverbal positions: A hybrid explanation for some distributional asymmetries

Dagmar Haumann | pp. 167–203

A feature-based theory of adverb syntax

Christopher Laenzlinger | pp. 205–252

Where syntax and semantics meet: Adverbial positions in the German middle field

Karin Pittner | pp. 253–287

Left/right contrasts among English temporal adverbials

Benjamin Shaer | pp. 289–332

Author index | p. 333

Subject index | p. 337

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