Adverbs and Adverbial Adjuncts at the Interfaces / / ed. by Katalin É. Kiss.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Bartos, Huba,; Bende-Farkas, Ágnes,; Dékány, Éva,; Egedi, Barbara,; Eszes, Boldizsár,; Kiefer, Ferenc,; Kiss, Katalin É.,; Kiss, Katalin Ě.,; Kádár, Edith,; Peredy, Márta,; Surányi, Balázs,; Ürögdi, Barbara,
• HerausgeberIn: Kiss, Katalin É.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Interface Explorations [IE] , 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (377 p.)

This book clarifies - 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- and right-adjunction. Their merge-in position is determined by the interplay of syntactic, semantic, and prosodic factors. The semantically motivated constraints discussed also include a type restriction affecting adverbials semantically incorporated into the verbal predicate, an obligatory focus position for scalar adverbs representing negative values of bidirectional scales, cooccurrence restrictions between verbs and adverbials involving incompatible subevents, etc. The order and interpretation of adverbials in the postverbal domain is shown to be affected by such phonologically motivated constraints as the Law of Growing Constituents, and by intonation phrase restructuring. The shape of the light-headed chain arising in the course of locative PP incorporation is determined by morpho-phonological requirements. The types of adverbs and adverbials analyzed include locatives, temporals, comitatives, epistemic adverbs, adverbs of degree, manner, counting, and frequency, quantificational adverbs, and adverbial participles.

Table of Contents

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