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Argument Structure and Adjuncts: Perspectives from New Guinea

Author(s) -

Mark Donohue

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

proceedings of the annual meeting of the berkeley linguistics society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2377-1666

pISSN - 0363-2946

DOI - 10.3765/bls.v32i1.3446

Subject(s) - new guinea , argument (complex analysis) , epistemology , philosophy , sociology , medicine , ethnology

0. Background It is widely assumed that arguments and adjuncts differ in that arguments are licensed by a predicate, while adjuncts are not. The nature and number of arguments is thus strictly delimited in a clause, while adjuncts are essentially unbounded. (1) and (2) demonstrate the restrictions placed on possible arguments by the predicate in English; in (1) the verb only allows for a subject, while in (2) the verb requires both a subject and a single object. (3) shows the lack of any such restrictions on adjuncts.

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