Sentence Adverbials in a Functional Description

Eva Koktová

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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.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/pb.vii.2

Table of Contents

0. Introduction | p. 1

1. The Theoretical Background | p. 7

1.1. Comments on previous approaches
1.2. Functional generative description

2. The Primary Case of the Underlying Occurrence of CA Expressions | p. 23

2.1. The paradigm of the primary case
2.2. Gereralizing about CA
2.3. Groups of CA expressions

3. Secondary Cases of the Underlying Occurrence of CA Expressions | p. 29

3.1. Multiple occurrence of CA expressions on the hierarchical scope interpretation
3.2. Multiple occurrence of CA expressions on the intracluster scope interpretation
3.3. Occurrence of CA expressions in wh-questions
3.4. CA expressions with underlying backward scope
3.5. Occurrence of CA expressions in the topic of a sentence
3.6. Occurrence of CA expressions in embedded structures
3.7. Coordination and apposition of CA expressions
3.8. CA expressions in parenthetical chunks of sentences

4. Surface Properties of CA Expressions | p. 43

4.1. Scope-unambiguous positions
4.2. Scope-ambiguous positions
4.3. Illustration

5. Formation of CA Expressions | p. 55

5.1. Morphological formation
5.2. Syntactic formation
5.3. Deep word-order based formation
5.4. Formation by lexicalization of collocations

6. Lexical Properties of CA Expressions | p. 59

6.1. Salva veritate paraphrasing and lexical relations of CA expressions
6.2. Salva veritate omissibility of CA expressions
6.3. Pronominalization and deletion of CA expressions
6.4. Distribution of CA expressions
6.5. Scoping relations of CA expressions
6.6. Listing CA expressions

7. Conclusion | p. 83

Footnotes | p. 85

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