Eintrag

Titel

Positions and Interpretations. German Adverbial Adjectives at the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Personen

Martin Schäfer

Jahr

2013

Typ

Monographie

Verlag

de Gruyter

Ort

Berlin usw.

Reihe

Trends in linguistics

Band

245

Schlagwörter

Adjektiv
Adverbial
Semantik
Syntax

Abstract

The structural and semantic properties of adverbials represent a still poorly understood area of sentential syntax and semantics in Germanic languages. In particular, it is an open question which different adverbial usages need to be distinguished, which usages are tied to which syntactic positions, and how these different usage can be formally analyzed. Focussing on adverbial adjectives in German, this study provides detailed answers to these questions. By distinguishing between verb-related adverbials and event-related adverbials, the author provides a new analysis of the large class of adverbials traditionally labelled as manner adverbials. It is shown that the two different classes are linked to different syntactic positions, and formal analyses and derivations for the two different usages are developed. The book is therefore of interest not only to anyone working on the linguistics of German but also to all linguists working on the syntax-semantics interface and the formal analysis of adverbials.

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