Adverbs, Events, and Other Things - Issues in the Semantics of Manner Adverbs (Hardcover, Reprint 2013)

"Adverbs, Events, and Other Things" treats issues in the semantics of manner adverbs. Part I takes up the Davidsonian claim that manner adverbs are predicates of events. The book investigates the subtle interplay of event individuation and various kinds of event modification and claims that manner adverbs play a core role in singling out both simple and complex events. Part II of the book is devoted to word order phenomena involving manner adverbs in German. Presenting a general theory of predication structure for German sentences, the author shows how the position of manner adverbs - in interplay with other factors - determines the division of an utterance into topic and comment. She thereby gives semantic evidence in favour of the claim that manner adverbs in German have a syntactic base position.

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Linguistische Arbeiten
Release date:	June 1998
First published:	1998
Authors:	Regine Eckardt
Dimensions:	240 x 170 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	174
Edition:	Reprint 2013
ISBN-13:	978-3-484-30379-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
LSN:	3-484-30379-4
Barcode:	9783484303799

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