Adverb Licensing and Clause Structure in English (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today)

This monograph provides an in-depth investigation of the structural integration and the licensing of adverbs in relation to clause structure, with special emphasis on the structural implementation of the relation between the position and interpretation of adverbs. The book substantiates the hypothesis that the licensing of adverbs within and across the three layers of the clause is contingent on specifier-head agreement and that variation in the linear order of adverbs and other elements of the clause follows from the interplay of a small number of factors. The central claims made are: functional projections hosting adverbs are not confined to the inflectional and complementizer layer of the clause, but also play a central role in the shaping of the lexical layer; postverbal adverbs are realized within a semantically empty verbal projection and licensed under specifier head agreement by proxy; and adverbs that occur within the complementizer layer of the clause do so by either __move__ or __merge__. This Monograph Provides An In-depth Investigation Of The Structural Integration And The Licensing Of Adverbs In Relation To Clause Structure, With Special Emphasis On The Structural Implementation Of The Relation Between The Position And Interpretation Of Adverbs. The Book Substantiates The Hypothesis That The Licensing Of Adverbs Within And Across The Three Layers Of The Clause Is Contingent On Specifiet-head Agreement And That Variation In The Linear Order Of Adverbs And Other Elements Of The Clause Follows From The Interplay Of A Small Number Of Factors.--jacket. Introduction And Overview -- 1.1 Adverbs As An Empirical Domain Of Investigation -- The Problems -- 1.2 Central Issues In Syntax And Semantics Of Adverbs -- A Note On Data Sources -- Notes -- Proposals Regarding The Structural Integration And Licensing -- Of Adverbs -- 2.1 Adverb Licensing In The Theory Of Government And Binding And -- The Theory Of Principles And Parameters -- 2.1.1 Modification -- 2.1.2 Predication -- 2.1.3 Head Feature Licensing -- 2.1.4 Adverbs As Innermost Complements Within Vp -- 2.1.5 Empirical And Theoretical Arguments Against Adjunction -- 2.1.6 Summary -- 2.2 Adverb Licensing In The Minimalist Program And Antisymmetry Of -- Syntax -- 2.2.1 Licensing Adverbs As Unique Specifiers -- 2.2.2 Problems For The Specifier Analysis -- 2.2.3 Summary -- 2.3 Semantic Scope -- 2.3.1 An Outline Of Semantic Scope -- 2.3.2 A Closer Look At Semantic Scope -- 2.3.3 Summary -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- Adverbs Within The Lexical Layer 3.1 Vp Shells, Overt Object Shift And Split Vp -- 3.1.1 A Note On (non)dative Shift -- 3.1.2 Summary -- 3.2 The Distribution And Licensing Of Adverbs Within The Lexical -- Layer -- 3.2.1 The Linear Orders Of 'manner Adverbs' And Participles -- 3.2.1.1 Manner Adverbs -- 3.2.1.1.1 All's Well That Ends Well -- 3.2.1.2 Agent-oriented Adverbs -- 3.2.1.3 Degree Of Perfection Adverbs -- 3.2.1.4 Means-domain Adverbs -- 3.2.1.5 The Analysis -- 3.2.1.5.1 Seemingly Out-of-place Manner Adverbs -- 3.2.1.5.2 Vp-boundedness -- 3.2.1.5.3 A Note On The Implicit Agent Argument In Passives -- 3.2.1.5.4 Co-occurrence And Linear Order: A Residual -- Problem And Its Solution -- 3.2.1.6 Summary -- 3.2.2 Completion Adverbs -- 3.2.2.1 Co-occurrence Of Completion Adverbs And Other -- Vp-internal Adverbs -- 3.2.2.2 Summary -- 3.2.3 Pure Domain Adverbs -- 3.2.3.1 Summary -- 3.2.4 Spatial Adverbs -- 3.2.4.1 Left-peripheral Spatial Expressions -- 3.2.4.2 Summary -- 3.2.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- Adverbs Within The Inflectional Layer, Mostly 4.1 The Projections Of Non-lexical Verbs -- 4.1.1 Summary -- 4.2 The Projection Of Sentential Negation -- 4.2.1 On The Status Of N't -- 4.2.2 Summary -- 4.3 The Distribution And Licensing Of Adverbs In The Inflectional -- Layer -- 4.3.1 Subject-related Adverbs -- 4.3.1.1 Subject-attitude Adverbs -- 4.3.1.2 Subject-oriented Adverbs -- 4.3.1.3 A Note On Passives, Attitudes And Orientations -- 4.3.1.4 Summary -- 4.3.2 Negative Adverbs -- 4.3.2.1 Inherently Negative Adverbs -- 4.3.2.2 Constituent Negation -- 4.3.2.2.1 A Puzzle And Its Solution -- 4.3.2.3 Summary -- 4.3.3 Aspectual Adverbs -- 4.3.3.1 Postverbal Occurrences And Seemingly Reversed -- Orders -- 4.3.3.2 Summary -- 4.3.4 Temporal Adverbs -- 4.3.4.1 The Syntax Of Temporal Prepositions (and Their -- Relatives) -- 4.3.4.2 The Licensing Of Temporal Expressions -- 4.3.4.3 Left-peripheral Temporal Expressions -- 4.3.4.4 Summary -- 4.3.5 Focusing Particles -- 4.3.5.1 Summary -- 4.3.6 Co-occurrence Of Adverbs In The Inflectional Layer -- 4.3.7 Conclusion -- Notes -- Adverbs Within The Complementizer Layer, Mostly 5.1 Raising To The Left Periphery -- 5.1.1 Summary -- 5.2 The Distribution And Licensing Of Adverbs Within The -- Complementizer Layer -- 5.2.1 Speaker-oriented Adverbs -- 5.2.1.1 Illocutionary Adverbs -- 5.2.1.2 Evaluative Adverbs -- 5.2.1.3 Evidential Adverbs -- 5.2.1.4 Epistemic Adverbs -- 5.2.1.5 'speaker-oriented Adverbs' Within The Inflectional -- Layer -- 5.2.1.6 Co-occurrence Of 'speaker-oriented' Adverbs -- 5.2.1.7 Summary -- 5.2.2 Co-occurrence Of Adverbs Within The Complementizer -- Layer -- 5.2.2.1 Summary -- 5.3 Conclusion -- Notes -- General Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index Dagmar Haumann. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [414]-431) And Index. This monograph provides an in-depth investigation of the structural integration and the licensing of adverbs in relation to clause structure, with special emphasis on the structural implementation of the relation between the position and interpretation of adverbs. The book substantiates the hypothesis that the licensing of adverbs within and across the three layers of the clause is contingent on specifier-head agreement and that variation in the linear order of adverbs and other elements of the clause follows from the interplay of a small number of factors. The central claims made are: functional projections hosting adverbs are not confined to the inflectional and complementizer layer of the clause, but also play a central role in the shaping of the lexical layer; postverbal adverbs are realized within a semantically empty verbal projection and licensed under specifier head agreement by proxy; and adverbs that occur within the complementizer layer of the clause do so by either move or merge .