On the nature of adverbials

This paper encompasses a syntactic analysis of circumstantial prepositional phrases and argues that their attachment as the innermost complements of verbs (McConnell-Ginet 1982, Larson 1989, 2005, Kayne 1994, Chomsky 1995) can give a better account not only of their nature as constituents related to...

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Main Author: IRIMIA, Monica Alexandrina
Other Authors: Claire Gurski and Milica Radisic, Irimia, Monica Alexandrina
Format: Conference Object
Language:English
Published: Canadian Linguistics Association, University of Toronto 2006
Subjects:
Davidson
aleut
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11380/1130170
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Summary:This paper encompasses a syntactic analysis of circumstantial prepositional phrases and argues that their attachment as the innermost complements of verbs (McConnell-Ginet 1982, Larson 1989, 2005, Kayne 1994, Chomsky 1995) can give a better account not only of their nature as constituents related to the event (Davidson 1967, Kratzer 1996) but also of other grammatical phenomena like agreement with inflected adverbials (as in Aleut, Nilsen 2000) or word order setting in V-initial languages.

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