184 Pages
28 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
184 Pages
28 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
184 Pages
28 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book offers a comprehensive account of adjuncts in generative grammar, seeking to reconcile the differing ways in which they have been treated in the past by proposing a method of analysis grounded in simplification based on Simplest Merge. The volume provides an up-to-date review of the existing literature on adjuncts and outlines their characteristic properties and the subsequent... Read more
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. What are Adjuncts?
3. The Minimalist Framework
4. Approaches to Adjuncts
5. A New Proposal: Labeling is Transfer
6. Conclusions and Outlook
Index
Biography
Stefanie Bode is Adjunct Lecturer at the Georg-August University of Göttingen, Department of English Philology - Linguistics, Germany. Her doctoral thesis on the verb ‘be’ in the English sentence structure was published in 2003. A short paper on this subject (One Be: One Syntactic Function) can be found online https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110929928.65.
