Adverbials and the Phase Model.
Title:
Adverbials and the Phase Model.
Author:
Biskup, Petr.
ISBN:
9789027287052
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (245 pages)
Contents:
Adverbials and the Phase Model -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Phrasal movement -- 2.1 Diesing (1992) and Chomsky (2001) -- 2.2 The general proposal -- 2.3 Semantic and information-structural properties of phrasal movement -- 2.3.1 Bare singulars -- 2.3.2 Plural DPs -- 2.3.3 Definite DPs -- 2.4 Syntactic properties of phrasal movement -- 2.4.1 Chomsky's object shift -- 2.4.2 The EPP-feature -- 2.4.3 Phase Featuring -- 2.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 3. Verb movement and architecture of the CP phase -- 3.1 Verb movement and the head T -- 3.1.1 Intransitive predicates -- 3.1.2 Transitive predicates -- 3.1.3 Verb movement as a narrow-syntactic phenomenon -- 3.2 Verb movement to Mood -- 3.3 MoodP and topicalization -- 3.4 MoodP and the EPP-feature -- 3.5 Long topicalization -- 3.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Adverbials in the sentence-final position in the vP phase -- 4.1 Circumstantial adverbials -- 4.2 Preverbal adverbials -- 4.2.1 Iterative and frequentative adverbials -- 4.2.2 Aspectual adverbials -- 4.2.3 Sentence adverbials -- 4.3 Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Hierarchy and movement of adverbials -- 5.1 Adverbial ordering -- 5.1.1 Preverbal adverbials -- 5.1.2 Circumstantial adverbials -- 5.2 The adjunct approach and the feature-based approach -- 5.3 Adverbials from different functional hierarchies -- 5.4 The Superset Subset Principle -- 5.4.1 Stacked adverbials -- 5.4.2 Non-stacked adverbials -- 5.5 The Principle of Natural Progress of Intervals -- 5.6 Adverbial movement -- 5.6.1 Short movement -- 5.6.2 Long movement -- 5.7 Conclusion -- Chapter 6. Adjunction, Condition C and the Background Adjunct Coreference Principle -- 6.1 Cyclic and acyclic adjunct merger -- 6.2 Adjunct merger and different types of adjuncts -- 6.2.1 Non-clausal adnominal adjuncts.
6.2.2 Clausal adnominal adjuncts -- 6.2.3 Non-clausal adverbial adjuncts -- 6.2.4 Clausal adverbial adjuncts -- 6.3 Problems of the cyclic and acyclic merger approach -- 6.4 Adjuncts are merged cyclically -- 6.5 Condition C and presuppositionality -- 6.6 Background Adjunct Coreference Principle -- 6.7 Antilocality Condition on Coreference -- 6.8 Conclusion -- Conclusions -- References -- Name index -- Subject index.
Abstract:
This monograph addresses two issues, phases and adverbials. It proposes that there is a correlation between the phase structure, the tripartite quantificational structure and the information structure of the sentence. This correlation plays an important role not only in referential and information-structural properties of arguments and the verb but also in adverbial properties. For instance, the study shows that certain sentence adverbials can occur in the sentence-final position in the vP phase when they represent the extreme value with respect to the set of focus alternatives. The proposed correlation also becomes important in anaphoric relations with respect to adjuncts. Only an R-expression spelled out and interpreted in the CP phase of an adjunct clause can corefer with the coindexed pronoun. The study also discusses adverbial ordering and shows that the relative order of certain adverbials can be reversed if they occur in different phases. The monograph will appeal to syntacticians and linguists interested in the relationship between syntax and its interfaces.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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