Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax
- Series page
- The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Background
- Part II Modern generative approaches to the study of sentence structure
- Part III Syntactic structures
- 9 Argument structureand argument structure alternations
- 10 The syntax of predication
- 11 Lexical categories and (extended) projection
- 12 The functional structure of the sentence, and cartography
- 13 Adverbial and adjectival modification
- Part IV Syntactic processes: their nature, locality, and motivation
- Part V Syntax and the internal interfaces
- Part VI Syntax and the external interfaces
- References
- Index of language names
- Index
13 - Adverbial and adjectival modification
from Part III - Syntactic structures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax
- Series page
- The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Background
- Part II Modern generative approaches to the study of sentence structure
- Part III Syntactic structures
- 9 Argument structureand argument structure alternations
- 10 The syntax of predication
- 11 Lexical categories and (extended) projection
- 12 The functional structure of the sentence, and cartography
- 13 Adverbial and adjectival modification
- Part IV Syntactic processes: their nature, locality, and motivation
- Part V Syntax and the internal interfaces
- Part VI Syntax and the external interfaces
- References
- Index of language names
- Index
Summary
The chapter offers an overview of certain issues that have been extensively discussed in the literature on the syntax of adjectival and adverbial modification. It presents discussion on the lexical status of modifiers, distributional and semantic classifications of adjectives and adverbs. The chapter also discusses a number of proposals concerning the licensing of modifiers and one influential proposal that adjectives and adverbs are specifiers of designated functional projections and the problems this faces. An influential view holds that both adverbs and adjectives are specifiers of designated functional projections in the verbal and nominal extended projections, respectively. The antisymmetry-based approaches to adverbial and adjectival modification opened up a very fruitful way to deal with this issue that led to a number of fine-grained descriptions of the behavior of adjectives and adverbs across languages as well as significant cross-linguistic comparisons.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax , pp. 458 - 484Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013
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