A semantic account of the stative adverb gap
- It is argued that there is a surprising gap in the distribution of adverbial modifiers, namely that there are (practically) no adverbs that modify exclusively stative verbs. Given the general range of selectional restrictions associated with adverb/verb modification, this comes as a surprise. It is argued that this gap cannot be the result of standard selectional restrictions. An independently motivated account of the state-event verb contrast, in which state verbs are proposed to lack Davidsonian arguments is presented and argued to account for this stative adverb gap. Some apparent and real problems with the analysis are discussed.
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| Author: | Graham Katz |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-307354 |
| URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/209.html |
| ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
| ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
| Parent Title (English): | Approaching the grammar of adjuncts : proceedings of the Oslo conference, September 22-25, 1999, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 1999; ZAS papers in linguistics Vol. 17 |
| Publisher: | Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2013/11/14 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2000 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2013/11/14 |
| GND Keyword: | Adverb; Syntax; Verb; Modifikation <Linguistik> |
| Volume: | 17 |
| Page Number: | 17 |
| First Page: | 135 |
| Last Page: | 151 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 378332333 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Sprachtypologie / Language typology |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: Semantik / Semantics | |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: Kontrastive Linguistik / Contrastive linguistics | |
| Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 17 = Approaching the grammar of adjuncts : Proceedings of the Oslo Conference |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306599 |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
