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Positions and interpretations : German adverbial adjectives at the syntax-semantics interface /
The structural and semantic properties of adverbials represent a still poorly understood area of sentential syntax and semantics in Germanic languages. The volume gives a detailed overview of the system of adverbial adjectives in German, linking the different types of adverbial usages to different s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
De Gruyter Mouton,
2013.
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| Colección: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
245. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Introduction; 1 Scope and aim; 2 On adverbials and adjectives; 2.1 Defining adverbials; 2.1.1 Adverbial vs. subject; 2.1.2 Adverbial vs. object; 2.1.3 Adverbial vs. predicative; 2.1.4 Adverbial vs. particle; 2.1.5 Summary; 2.2 Adverbial adjectives; 2.2.1 Adjectives; 2.2.2 Adverbs; 2.2.3 Adjective or adverb?; 2.3 Summary; 3 Basic distinctions; 3.1 Class properties of adverbial adjectives; 3.2 Set-theoretic classifications of adjectives; 3.3 Sentence and non-sentence adverbials; 3.4 Other important semantic properties; 3.4.1 Opacity; 3.4.2 Veridicality; 4 Structure of the book.
- 2 The readings of sentence adverbials1 Introduction; 2 Subject-oriented adverbials; 2.1 Adverbial adjectives as subject-oriented adverbials; 3 Speaker-oriented adverbials; 3.1 Speech-act adverbials; 3.2 Epistemic adverbials; 3.3 Evaluative adverbials; 4 Domain adverbials; 5 Semantic constraints on possible sentence adverbials; 6 Conclusion; 3 The readings of verb-related adverbials; 1 Introduction; 2 Manner adverbials; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Pure manner adverbials; 2.3 Agent-oriented manner adverbials; 2.4 Further orientations; 3 Degree adverbials.
- 3.1 Contexts and constraints for degree modification3.2 Degree-manner ambiguities; 4 Method-oriented adverbials; 5 Verb-related adverbials and secondary predication; 5.1 Resultatives; 5.2 Ambiguities and blends; 5.3 Depictives; 6 Adverbial adjectives and the verb-adverbial combinatorics; 6.1 Statives that allow manner modification; 6.2 Mannerless statives; 7 Verb-related adverbials and negation; 7.1 Negation, adverbials, and the sentential base; 7.2 Verb-related adverbials with scope over negation; 8 Conclusion; 4 Event-related adverbials; 1 Mental-attitude adverbials.
- 1.1 Mental-attitude adverbials and opacity1.2 Mental-attitude adverbials vs. secondary predication; 1.3 Transparent adverbials; 1.4 Transparent adverbials, depictives and negation; 2 Event-external adverbials; 2.1 Inchoative readings of schnell and langsam; 2.2 Holistic usages; 2.2.1 Holistic usages and the internal structure of the event; 2.2.2 Quantified direct objects; 2.2.3 Modifiers of complex events; 3 The wobei-paraphrase; 3.1 Wobei vs. während; 3.2 Event-related adverbials and the wobei-paraphrase; 3.2.1 Mental-attitude adverbials and the wobei-paraphrase.
- 3.2.2 The wobei-paraphrase and event-external modification3.2.3 The wobei-paraphrase and associated readings; 4 Summary; 5 The syntactic position of manner adverbials; 1 Introduction; 2 Establishing syntactic positions; 3 Adverbial modification and information structure; 3.1 Focus projection; 3.2 Adverbials and normal word order; 4 Eckardt's account: Scrambled indefinite direct objects; 4.1 Restricted combinations: Implicit resultatives and verbs of creation; 4.2 The readings of indefinites and topicality; 4.3 In-group readings; 4.4 Problems for Eckardt's account.