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The vannoord_bouma:94 treatment of adjuncts adopts the
positive aspects of Kasper's (1993) treatment, integrating them into a
framework which solves several problems with Kasper's original
treatment. They accomplish this via a delayed-evaluation lexical rule
approach to the incorporation of adjuncts. I will adopt this general
approach, but will refine the semantic representation in terms of that
introduced in Chapter 2 to show how it can be used to
handle the phenomena of redundancy restrictions, adjunct combination
restrictions, and pseudo-complementation. Additionally, a more
explicit methodology for handling word order and semantic precedence
constraints will be introduced.