Next:
Characteristics of adjuncts to
Up:
Prepositional Phrases and Verb
Previous:
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