Only connect
- Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 39, 3-46.
- Only connect looks at the syntax of only within the notionally-grounded dependency grammar framework laid out in Anderson (1997. A notional theory of syntactic categories. Cambridge: CUP), dealing, for instance, with the apparent ‘misplacement’ of only before the verb and its scope illustrated by e.g. She only travels on foot (vs. She travels only on foot). The paper looks at both (i) 'adverbial' and (ii) 'attributive' uses of only. It is suggested that only is a 'specifier' that is (i) unspecified for the category of the head it seeks to modify or (ii) seeks to modify, in particular, a quantifier head.
- 39 pages, 489kb
Autor:
Anderson, John M.
Jahr:
2 001
Bereich:
NG
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