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Adverbs, Events, and Other Things : Issues in the Semantics of Manner Adverbs / Regine Eckardt.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Linguistische Arbeiten ; 379Publisher: Tübingen : Max Niemeyer Verlag, [2013]Copyright date: ©1998Edition: Reprint 2013Description: 1 online resource (168 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783484303799
  • 9783110913781
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 415 21
LOC classification:
  • P284
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Ontology -- Chapter 3. Events and Their Names -- Chapter 4: Mereological Structure -- Chapter 5: Scope -- Chapter 6. Manner Adverbs and Word Order -- 7. Bibliography
Summary: "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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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Ontology -- Chapter 3. Events and Their Names -- Chapter 4: Mereological Structure -- Chapter 5: Scope -- Chapter 6. Manner Adverbs and Word Order -- 7. Bibliography

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"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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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