MAPPING POSITIONS TO INTERPRETATION: SENTENCE ADVERBS IN ROMANIAN AND ENGLISH Cover Image

MAPPING POSITIONS TO INTERPRETATION: SENTENCE ADVERBS IN ROMANIAN AND ENGLISH
MAPPING POSITIONS TO INTERPRETATION: SENTENCE ADVERBS IN ROMANIAN AND ENGLISH

Author(s): Daria Protopopescu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: adjunction theory; English sentence adverbs; feature-based theory; Romanian sentence adverbs

Summary/Abstract: The position and meaning of Modern Romanian sentence adverbs is discussed in the framework of generative syntax. The paper will also discuss some typological and diachronic facts of Romanian as well as English adverbs. The present study proposes an analysis of the position and meaning of sentence adverbs in Romanian in terms of Cinque's feature-based theory and Ernst's adjunct theory trying to unify the syntactic and the semantic accounts.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 287-297
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English
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