Adverbs in Strange Places: On the Syntax of Adverbs in Dutch

This paper discusses four Dutch constructions in which adverbs occur in marked syntactic positions: (i) Adverbs that occur in an embedded clause but must be interpreted in the main clause; (ii) Adverbs that occur in the main clause but can be interpreted in the embedded clause; (iii) Extraposed adve...

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Published in:Nederlandse taalkunde (Groningen) 2018-03, Vol.23 (1), p.57
Main Author: Barbiers, Sjef
Format: Article
Language:dut ; eng
Subjects:
Adverbs
Clauses
Dutch language
Predicate
Syntactic structures
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Summary:This paper discusses four Dutch constructions in which adverbs occur in marked syntactic positions: (i) Adverbs that occur in an embedded clause but must be interpreted in the main clause; (ii) Adverbs that occur in the main clause but can be interpreted in the embedded clause; (iii) Extraposed adverbs; (iv) Predicate adverbs that occur in the position of sentence adverbs. These phenomena provide evidence for an analysis of adverb placement in Dutch along the lines of the Cinque hierarchy (Cinque 1999), supplemented with the traditional split between sentence adverbs and predicate adverbs (Jackendoff 1972). A new analysis is proposed for the bridge verbs denken ‘think’ and willen ‘want’ in which they move from a position in the embedded clause into the matrix clause.
ISSN:1384-5845
2352-1171
DOI:10.5117/NEDTAA2018.1.BARB