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A categorial treatment of adverbial nouns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2002

NEAL WHITMAN
NEAL WHITMAN
Affiliation:
The Ohio State University
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Abstract

A select set of English nouns can head adverbial NPs – NPs that can act as adverbs without being preceded by a preposition. These ‘adverbial nouns’ also can be modified by prepositionless adverbial non-wh relative clauses. An analysis is presented in a categorial grammar framework, employing a conjunctive type structure to describe the behavior of adverbial nouns. It is suggested that adverbial nouns select non-wh adverbial relative clauses as complements; lexical rules are written to allow such selection. Finally, some remaining issues are surveyed concerning adverbial nouns in particular and conjunctive categories in general.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Linguistics , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , November 2002 , pp. 561 - 597
Copyright
2002 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

Thanks to David Dowty for guidance during many drafts of this paper, and to Bob Kasper, Martin Jansche, Carl Pollard, Nathan Vaillette, Anton Rytting and three anonymous JL referees for useful comments and suggestions. Any errors that remain are mine alone. Portions of this paper also appear in chapter 6 of Whitman (2002).