Adverbs, Events, and Other Things | Issues in the Semantics of Manner Adverbs

Regine Eckardt

ISBN 10: 3484303794 / ISBN 13: 9783484303799

Published by De Gruyter, 1998

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Adverbs, Events, and Other Things | Issues in the Semantics of Manner Adverbs | Regine Eckardt | Buch | VI | Englisch | 1998 | De Gruyter | EAN 9783484303799 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, De Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Str. 13, 10785 Berlin, productsafety[at]degruyterbrill[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Adverbs, Events, and Other Things | Issues in the Semantics of Manner Adverbs
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3484303794
• ISBN 13: 9783484303799
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 246W x 175H x 15D millimeters 246 millimeters width by 175 millimeters height by 15 millimeters depth
• Weight: 488 grams
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Synopsis

"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.