Sentence Adverbials in a Functional Description
The author presents empirical arguments in favor of a joint syntactico-semantic treatment, within the framework of a functional generative description, of a range of adverbial expressions which should be viewed as belonging to a single, lexically heterogeneous but functionally homogeneous, class exhibiting scoping properties and functioning as ‘complementation of attitude’ (CA). These CA-expressions do not only share their underlying functional properties but also certain surface-syntax properties.
[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:2] 1986. viii, 96 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
0. Introduction
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1
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1. The Theoretical Background
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7
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1.1. Comments on previous approaches
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7
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1.2. Functional generative description
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17
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2. The Primary Case of the Underlying Occurrence of CA Expressions
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23
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2.1. The paradigm of the primary case
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23
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2.2. Gereralizing about CA
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26
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2.3. Groups of CA expressions
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28
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3. Secondary Cases of the Underlying Occurrence of CA Expressions
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29
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3.1. Multiple occurrence of CA expressions on the hierarchical scope interpretation
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29
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3.2. Multiple occurrence of CA expressions on the intracluster scope interpretation
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31
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3.3. Occurrence of CA expressions in wh-questions
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32
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3.4. CA expressions with underlying backward scope
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33
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3.5. Occurrence of CA expressions in the topic of a sentence
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35
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3.6. Occurrence of CA expressions in embedded structures
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36
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3.7. Coordination and apposition of CA expressions
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38
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3.8. CA expressions in parenthetical chunks of sentences
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40
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4. Surface Properties of CA Expressions
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43
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4.1. Scope-unambiguous positions
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43
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4.2. Scope-ambiguous positions
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44
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4.3. Illustration
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51
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5. Formation of CA Expressions
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55
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5.1. Morphological formation
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55
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5.2. Syntactic formation
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56
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5.3. Deep word-order based formation
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56
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5.4. Formation by lexicalization of collocations
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57
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6. Lexical Properties of CA Expressions
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59
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6.1. Salva veritate paraphrasing and lexical relations of CA expressions
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60
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6.2. Salva veritate omissibility of CA expressions
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63
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6.3. Pronominalization and deletion of CA expressions
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65
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6.4. Distribution of CA expressions
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66
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6.5. Scoping relations of CA expressions
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70
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6.6. Listing CA expressions
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75
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7. Conclusion
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Footnotes
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85
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References
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Subjects
BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General