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Positions and Interpretations Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs 245 Editor Volker Gast Founding Editor Werner Winter Editorial Board Walter Bisang Hans Henrich Hock Heiko Narrog Natalia Levshina Matthias Schlesewsky Niina Ning Zhang Editor responsible for this volume Volker Gast De Gruyter Mouton Positions and Interpretations German Adverbial Adjectives at the Syntax-Semantics Interface by Martin Schäfer De Gruyter Mouton ISBN 978-3-11-027644-2 e-ISBN 978-3-11-027828-6 ISSN 1861-4302 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData ACIPcatalogrecordforthisbookhasbeenappliedforattheLibraryofCongress. BibliographicinformationpublishedbytheDeutscheNationalbibliothek TheDeutscheNationalbibliothekliststhispublicationintheDeutscheNationalbibliografie; detailedbibliographicdataareavailableintheInternetathttp://dnb.dnb.de. ”2013WalterdeGruyterGmbH,Berlin/Boston Printing:Hubert&Co.GmbH&Co.KG,Göttingen (cid:2)(cid:2)Printedonacid-freepaper PrintedinGermany www.degruyter.com Formyparents,Kord-HinrichandSabineScha¨fer Contents 1 Introduction 1 Scopeandaim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 Onadverbialsandadjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.1 Definingadverbials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1.1 Adverbialvs.subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1.2 Adverbialvs.object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.1.3 Adverbialvs.predicative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.1.4 Adverbialvs.particle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.1.5 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2.2 Adverbialadjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.2.1 Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.2.2 Adverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2.2.3 Adjectiveoradverb? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 2.3 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 3 Basicdistinctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 3.1 Classpropertiesofadverbialadjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 3.2 Set-theoreticclassificationsofadjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 3.3 Sentenceandnon-sentenceadverbials . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 3.4 Otherimportantsemanticproperties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 3.4.1 Opacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 3.4.2 Veridicality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 4 Structureofthebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 2 Thereadingsofsentenceadverbials 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 2 Subject-orientedadverbials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 2.1 Adverbialadjectivesassubject-orientedadverbials . . . . . . 36 3 Speaker-orientedadverbials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 3.1 Speech-actadverbials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 3.2 Epistemicadverbials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 3.3 Evaluativeadverbials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 4 Domainadverbials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 5 Semanticconstraintsonpossiblesentenceadverbials . . . . . 47 6 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 viii Contents 3 Thereadingsofverb-relatedadverbials 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 2 Manneradverbials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 2.2 Puremanneradverbials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 2.3 Agent-orientedmanneradverbials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 2.4 Furtherorientations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 3 Degreeadverbials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 3.1 Contextsandconstraintsfordegreemodification . . . . . . . . 65 3.2 Degree-mannerambiguities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 4 Method-orientedadverbials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 5 Verb-relatedadverbialsandsecondarypredication . . . . . . . 69 5.1 Resultatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 5.2 Ambiguitiesandblends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 5.3 Depictives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 6 Adverbialadjectivesandtheverb-adverbialcombinatorics . . 78 6.1 Stativesthatallowmannermodification . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 6.2 Mannerlessstatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 7 Verb-relatedadverbialsandnegation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 7.1 Negation,adverbials,andthesententialbase . . . . . . . . . . 86 7.2 Verb-relatedadverbialswithscopeovernegation . . . . . . . 89 8 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 4 Event-relatedadverbials 1 Mental-attitudeadverbials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 1.1 Mental-attitudeadverbialsandopacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 1.2 Mental-attitudeadverbialsvs.secondarypredication . . . . . . 100 1.3 Transparentadverbials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 1.4 Transparentadverbials,depictivesandnegation . . . . . . . . 103 2 Event-externaladverbials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 2.1 Inchoativereadingsofschnellandlangsam . . . . . . . . . . 105 2.2 Holisticusages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 2.2.1 Holisticusagesandtheinternalstructureoftheevent . . . . . 106 2.2.2 Quantifieddirectobjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 2.2.3 Modifiersofcomplexevents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 3 Thewobei-paraphrase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 3.1 Wobeivs.wa¨hrend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 3.2 Event-relatedadverbialsandthewobei-paraphrase . . . . . . . 120 Contents ix 3.2.1 Mental-attitudeadverbialsandthewobei-paraphrase. . . . . . 120 3.2.2 Thewobei-paraphraseandevent-externalmodification . . . . 121 3.2.3 Thewobei-paraphraseandassociatedreadings . . . . . . . . . 123 4 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 5 Thesyntacticpositionofmanneradverbials 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 2 Establishingsyntacticpositions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 3 Adverbialmodificationandinformationstructure . . . . . . . 130 3.1 Focusprojection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 3.2 Adverbialsandnormalwordorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 4 Eckardt’saccount:Scrambledindefinitedirectobjects . . . . . 135 4.1 Restrictedcombinations: Implicitresultativesandverbsofcreation . . . . . . . . . . . 136 4.2 Thereadingsofindefinitesandtopicality . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 4.3 In-groupreadings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 4.4 ProblemsforEckardt’saccount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 4.4.1 FreyvsEckardt:Thestrongreadingofindefinites . . . . . . . 140 4.4.2 Manneradverbialsandverbsofcreation . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 5 FreyandPittner:Objectintegration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 5.1 Resultativesandintegration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 6 Analternativeaccount: It’stheadverbial’sreadingthatisdecisive . . . . . . . . . . . 145 6.1 Adverbialsoutoftheblue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 6.1.1 Theticsentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 6.2 Re-interpretingthecontroversialexamples . . . . . . . . . . . 152 6.2.1 Existentiallyinterpretedw-phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 6.2.2 W-phrases:Re-interpretingthedata. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 6.3 Theme-rhemecondition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 7 Moreevidenceandsomesubtleties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 7.1 Clearminimalpairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 7.2 Lexicalsemanticsandverb-adverbialcombinatorics . . . . . . 163 7.3 Scrambling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 8 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

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The structural and semantic properties of adverbials represent a still poorly understood area of sentential syntax and semantics in Germanic languages. The volume gives a detailed overview of the system of adverbial adjectives in German, linking the different types of adverbial usages to different s
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