den Dikken,, Marcel (2025) On the subject of subject-oriented adverbials. In: International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification 2024, 2024.11.16-2024.11.17, Tokyo.
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Abstract
This paper focuses on the question of what serves as the subject of subject-oriented adverbials such as wisely in John wisely didn’t leave the house. Direct predication between wisely and the nominal subject is ruled out, as is an analysis mobilising control of a PRO-subject local to AP, primarily on the basis of the fact that subject-oriented adverbials do not depend on the presence of an explicit nominal subject in the structural subject position of the clause that contains them. The syntax of subject-oriented adverbials is couched instead in a direct reverse predication relationship between the adverbial and the proposition (TP). The semantic link between the adverbial’s experiencer argument and the subject is obtained via θ-binding.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | subject-oriented adverbial, predication, control, implicit subject, θ-binding |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > P0 Philology. Linguistics / filológia, nyelvészet |
| SWORD Depositor: | MTMT SWORD |
| Depositing User: | MTMT SWORD |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Mar 2026 09:12 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Mar 2026 09:12 |
| URI: | https://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/235235 |
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