Adverb placement [Elektronische Ressource] : an optimality theoretic approach / von Eva Engels

Adverb Placement An Optimality Theoretic Approach Dissertation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades Doctor philosophiae (Dr. phil.) eingereicht bei der Humanwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Potsdam von Eva Engels September 2004 CONTENTS Introduction 1 PART I: ADVERB PLACEMENT Chapter 1.The Dat 9 1.1 The Ordering of Adverbs and Verbs/Auxiliaries 9 1.1.1 Adverbs and Finite Verbs/Auxiliaries 9 1.1.2 Adverb and Non-Finite Verbs/Auxiliaries 14 1.2 The Ordering of Adverbs and Arguments 17 1.2.1 Focus-Background Structure 17 1.2.2 Topic-Comment 19 1.2.3 Frequency and Temporal Adverbs and the Reading of Arguments 21 Chapter 2. Previous Approaches to the Ordering of Adverbs and Verbs 24 2.1 Syntactic Approaches 24 2.1.1 (In)Variable Verb Positioning: Emonds (1976), Pollock (1989, 1997), Baker (1991) 24 2.1.2 (In)Variable Subject Positioning: Belletti (1990, 1994) 30 2.1.3 (In)Variable Verb and Subject Positioning: Cinque (1999) 38 2.14 (Un)Availability of X'-Adjunction: Ernst (2002) 41 2.2 A Semantic Approach: Ernst (1998, 2002) 50 2.3 Summary 62 i Adverb Placement. An Optimality Theoretic Approach Chapter 3. An Optimality Theoretic Approach to Adverb Placement 63 3.