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Adverbs and adverbial adjuncts at the interfaces /

This book aims to clarify - on the basis of mainly Hungarian data - basic issues concerning the category 'adverb', the function 'adverbial', and the grammar of adverbial modification. It argues for the PP analysis of adverbials, and claims that they enter the derivation via left-...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kiss, Katalin É
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2009.
Colección:Interface explorations ; 20.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • Merge-in position and interpretation
  • 2. Syntactic, semantic, and prosodic factors determining the position of adverbial adjuncts
  • 3. ''Incorporated'' locative adverbials in Hungarian
  • 4. The syntax of Hungarian -vA adverbial participles: A single affix with variable merge-in locations
  • 5. Adverbial (dis)ambiguities. Syntactic and prosodic features of ambiguous predicational adverbs
  • 6. Temporal adverbial clauses with or without operator movement
  • Questions of category and grammatical function
  • 7. Adverbial versus adjectival constructions with BE
  • 8. Obligatory adjuncts licensing Definiteness Effect constructions
  • 9. Comitative adjuncts: appositives and non-appositives
  • 10. Types of temporal adverbials and the fine structure of events
  • 11. Aspect and adverb interpretation
  • the case of quickly
  • Interaction with focus
  • 12. Scalar adverbs in and out of focus
  • 13. Adverbs of quantification, it-clefts and Hungarian focus
  • Backmatter.