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