Adverbs, Events, and Other Things
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Adverbs, Events, and Other Things

Issues in the Semantics of Manner Adverbs

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  2. English
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Adverbs, Events, and Other Things

Issues in the Semantics of Manner Adverbs

About this book

"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 rôle 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.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9783484303799
eBook ISBN
9783110913781
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
German Language
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. 1. Introduction
  3. 1.1. Manner Adverbs
  4. 1.2. The Operator Approach of Thomason and Stalnaker
  5. 1.3. The Narrow Operator Approach
  6. 1.4. The Event Based Approach
  7. 1.5. Appendix: Operators Are Not Essential
  8. 2. Ontology
  9. 2.1. Events and Sets of Times
  10. 2.2. Events as Spatio-Temporal Regions
  11. 2.3. Semantic Participants
  12. 2.4. Summary
  13. 3. Events and Their Names
  14. 3.1. Attribution
  15. 3.2. Evaluative Adverbs
  16. 3.3. Causation
  17. 4. Mereological Structure
  18. 4.1. Evidence in Favour of Complex Events
  19. 4.2. Persistent Event Structures
  20. 4.3. Non-boolean Conjunction
  21. 5. Scope
  22. 5.1. Modification of Big Events
  23. 5.2. Existential Closure, and Diesing’s Mapping Hypothesis
  24. 5.3. On Little and Big Events
  25. 6. Manner Adverbs and Word Order
  26. 6.1. Manner Adverbs and Indefinite NPs
  27. 6.2. Intonation and Normality
  28. 6.3. Focus, and the Interpretation of Indefinites
  29. 6.4. Adverbs of Degree of Perfection
  30. 6.5. Conclusion
  31. 7. Bibliography