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Title

Positions and interpretations : German adverbial adjectives at the syntax-semantics interface / by Martin Schäfer.

Author

Schäfer, Martin, 1975-

Publication

Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013]

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Description

xiv, 236 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 245

Uniform Title

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs 245.

Subject

• German language > Verb
• German language > Adverbials
• German language > Syntax
• German language > Semantics
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
• German language > Adverbials
• German language > Semantics
• German language > Syntax
• German language > Verb
• Deutsch
• Adjektivadverb
• Syntax
• Semantik

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Scope and aim -- On adverbials and adjectives -- Defining adverbials -- Adverbial vs. subject -- Adverbial vs. object -- Adverbial vs. predicative -- Adverbial vs. particle -- Summary -- Adverbial adjectives -- Adjectives -- Adverbs -- Adjective or adverb? -- Summary -- Basic distinctions -- Class properties of adverbial adjectives -- Set-theoretic classifications of adjectives -- Sentence and non-sentence adverbials -- Other important semantic properties -- Opacity -- Veridicality -- Structure of the book -- The readings of sentence adverbials -- Introduction -- Subject-oriented adverbials -- Adverbial adjectives as subject-oriented adverbials -- Speaker-oriented adverbials -- Speech-act adverbials -- Epistemic adverbials -- Evaluative adverbials -- Domain adverbials -- Semantic constraints on possible sentence adverbials -- Conclusion -- The readings of verb-related adverbials -- Introduction -- Manner adverbials -- Introduction -- Pure manner adverbials -- Agent-oriented manner adverbials -- Further orientations -- Degree adverbials -- Contexts and constraints for degree modification -- Degree-manner ambiguities -- Method-oriented adverbials -- Verb-related adverbials and secondary predication -- Resultatives -- Ambiguities and blends -- Depictives -- Adverbial adjectives and the verb-adverbial combinatorics -- Statives that allow manner modification -- Mannerless statives -- Verb-related adverbials and negation -- Negation, adverbials, and the sentential base -- Verb-related adverbials with scope over negation -- Conclusion -- Event-related adverbials -- Mental-attitude adverbials -- Mental-attitude adverbials and opacity -- Mental-attitude adverbials vs. secondary predication -- Transparent adverbials -- Transparent adverbials, depictives and negation -- Event-external adverbials -- Inchoative readings of schnell and langsam -- Holistic usages -- Holistic usages and the internal structure of the event -- Quantified direct objects -- Modifiers of complex events -- The wobei-paraphrase -- Wobei vs. während -- Event-related adverbials and the wobei-paraphrase -- Mental-attitude adverbials and the wobei'-paraphrase -- The wobei-paraphrase and event-external modification -- The wobei-paraphrase and associated readings -- Summary -- The syntactic position of manner adverbials -- Introduction -- Establishing syntactic positions -- Adverbial modification and information structure -- Focus projection -- Adverbials and normal word order -- Eckardt's account : Scrambled indefinite direct objects -- Restricted combinations : Implicit resultatives and verbs of creation -- The readings of indefinites and topicality -- In-group readings -- Problems for Eckardt's account -- Frey vs Eckardt : the strong reading of indefinites -- Manner adverbials and verbs of creation -- Frey and Pittner: Object integration -- Resultatives and integration -- An alternative account : it's the adverbial's reading that is decisive -- Adverbials out of the blue -- Thetic sentences -- Re-interpreting the controversial examples -- Existentially interpreted w-phrases -- W-phrases : re-interpreting the data -- Theme-rheme condition -- More evidence and some subtleties -- Clear minimal pairs -- Lexical semantics and verb-adverbial combinatorics -- Scrambling -- Summary -- Adverbials in formal semantics : the classical analyses -- The Operator approach -- Thomason and Stalnaker -- The Operator approach and scope -- The Operator approach as a general analysis of modification structures -- Criticism of the Operator approach -- The cognitive inappropriateness of the intensional Solution -- Entailments in the Operator approach -- The argument approach : McConnell-Ginet -- Entailments in McConnell-Ginet's approach -- The predicate approach : event-based semantics -- Event-based semantics and intuitive plausibility -- The scope of the event-based approach -- Neo-Davidsonian approaches -- Possible combinations : events and the predicate-modifier approach -- Adding events -- Event-based semantics as a refinement -- Conclusion -- The semantic analysis of verb-related adverbials -- Manners in the ontology -- The history of the idea -- The cognitive Status of manners -- Manners in the representation -- The technical aspects : getting manners into the representation and specifying them -- Benefits of the analysis -- Differentiating the readings and the link to syntax -- The syntax-semantics interface -- Event-related modification : the difficult cases -- Summary -- Summary and outlook -- Results -- Outlook -- Notes -- References -- Index.

ISBN

• 9783110276442
• 3110276445
• 3110278286
• 9783110278286
• 3110278294
• 9783110278293

LCCN

^^2013012142

OCLC

• 855583622
• SCSB-11286567

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library