Prepositional Phrases and Verb Semantics

 

 
• Introduction
• Adjuncts or Complements?
  • Syntactic Tests for Argument Structure
    • The ``do so'' Test
    • Iterability test
    • Relative Order
    • Complement-Internal Gaps
  • Semantic Tests for Argument Structure
    • Constancy of Semantic Contribution
    • Entailment Tests
  • Conclusions
• Pseudo-Complements
  • Definition and Relation to adjuncts
  • Pseudo-complement semantics
    • The -dative pseudo-complement
    • The -dative pseudo-complement
  • Pseudo-complement lexical semantic compatibility
  • Conclusions
• Adjuncts
  • Characteristics of adjuncts to be accounted for
    • Adjuncts have an unchanging semantic contribution
    • Restrictive, Operator, and Thematic adjuncts
    • Surface order vs. Semantic precedence
    • Redundancy constraints
    • Interspersal of adjuncts with complements (Mittelfeld phenomena)
  • The standard HPSG approach
  • A ``Semantic Obliqueness'' hierarchy
  • The lexical rule approach
  • Conclusions
• Semantic Integration
  • Adjunct semantics
  • The op-adjuncts feature
  • Lexical rules
  • Dative alternation
• Conclusions