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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    12 October 2009
    20 December 2001
    ISBN:
    9780511486258
    9780521771344
    9780521028189
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511486258
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    1.01kg, 568 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.833kg, 568 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Grammar and Syntax, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (96)
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    Subjects:
    Grammar and Syntax, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (96)
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    This book proposes a theory of the distribution of adverbial adjuncts in a Principles and Parameters framework, claiming that there are few syntactic principles specific to adverbials; rather, for the most part, adverbials adjoin freely to any projection. Adjuncts' possible hierarchical positions are determined by whether they can receive a proper interpretation, according to their selectional (including scope) requirements and general compositional rules, while linear order is determined by hierarchical position along with a system of directionality principles and morphological weight, both of which apply generally to adjuncts and all other syntactic elements. A wide range of adverbial types is analysed; predicational adverbs (such as manner, and modal adverbs), domain expressions like financially, temporal, frequency, duration and focusing adverbials; participant PPs (e.g. locatives and benefactives); resultative and conditional clauses, and others, taken primarily from English, Chinese, French and Italian, with occasional reference to others (such as German and Japanese).

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