A Canonical Approach to the Argument/Adjunct Distinction

This paper provides an account of the argument/adjunct distinction implementing the 'canonical approach'. I identify five criteria (obligatoriness, latency, co-occurrence restrictions, grammatical relations, and iterability) and seven diagnostic tendencies that can be used to distinguish c...

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Main Author: Diana Forker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Dartmouth College Library 2014-01-01
Series:Linguistic Discovery
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.444