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
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Language:English
Published: Canadian Linguistics Association, University of Toronto 2006
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spelling ftunivmodena:oai:iris.unimore.it:11380/1130170 2024-01-21T09:58:47+01:00 On the nature of adverbials IRIMIA, Monica Alexandrina Claire Gurski and Milica Radisic Irimia, Monica Alexandrina 2006 http://hdl.handle.net/11380/1130170 eng eng Canadian Linguistics Association, University of Toronto country:CAN info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/isbn/N/A ispartofbook:Proceedings of the 2006 CLA Annual Conference Canadian Linguistics Association Annual Meeting firstpage:1 lastpage:12 alleditors:Claire Gurski and Milica Radisic http://hdl.handle.net/11380/1130170 info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject 2006 ftunivmodena 2023-12-26T23:20:44Z 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. Conference Object aleut Archivio della ricerca dell'Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Unimore: IRIS) Davidson ENVELOPE(-44.766,-44.766,-60.766,-60.766)
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