Adverbs and Functional Heads: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective

by Guglielmo Cinque

One of the world's leading syntacticians presents evidence for locating Adverb Phrases in the specifiers of distinct functional projections within a novel and well articulated theory of the clause. In this theory, both adverbs and heads, which encode the functional notions of the clause, are ordered in a rigid sequence. Cinques cutting-edge proposal suggests that the structure of natural language sentences is much richer than previously assumed.

Genres: Linguistics

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Carmen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very convincing, but the author manages to shoot himself in the foot in the last chapter.