Transforming manner adverbs into subject-oriented adverbs: evidence from Japanese

Kubota, Ai

doi:10.1007/s11049-015-9287-7

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“…Kubota 2015:1032 takes a Japanese subject‐oriented adverb such as orokani‐mo ‘stupidly’ in (11) as the function in which the event of John's falling is judged to be stupid when compared with other things John or someone else might do. This interpretation captures an important part of the basic semantics of subject‐oriented adverbs: they evaluate an event in which the subject is a doer.…”

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Bipartite Agentivity Expression in Chinese Passives

Chen

2020

Syntax

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It is now widely accepted that the Agent argument is introduced by a head F (e.g., v or Voice) separate from V/VP. What is not yet explicitly established is whether or not F alone constitutes the source for agentivity. Merging two facts in Chinese—(i) the unique three‐way division between the long passive, the short passive, and the unaccusative and (ii) the two kinds of subject‐related adjuncts that can occur in a clause—this article demonstrates that there exists a syntactic projection, which we take to be VP, that supports subject‐oriented adverbs but not subject depictives. This suggests clearly that agentivity is in the semantics of V, while the instantiation of the Agent argument depends on F. A structural and semantic analysis based on the bipartite expression of agentivity is given to passives, unaccusatives, and middles.

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“…Kubota 2015 uses (11), with unaccusative verbs, to argue that (in Japanese) a subject‐oriented adverb is licensed by a syntactic subject rather than by an Agent argument specifically 4…”

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Bipartite Agentivity Expression in Chinese Passives

Chen

2020

Syntax

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“…John-TOP stupidly-PRT danced Stupidly, John danced.' According to Matsui, the adverb orokani derives from the adjective orokana 'stupid', and the particle -mo turns the manner adverb into a sentence adverb (see also Kubota 2015).…”

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The hidden side of adverbs

Mirto¹

2018

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This paper will address the predicative nature of manner adverb(ial)s and of three types of sentence adverbs (subject-oriented, modal, and evaluative) in Italian. Predication often becomes overt by means of morphological correlates. Is it possible to find any such evidence with invariable adverbs? To unveil their predicative nature, a procedure will be suggested in which two sentences, one with a -mente adverb, the other with its cognate adjective (a) share the content morphemes (identity of the signifiant) and (b) entail each other (identity of the signifié as regards semantic roles). A number of such pairs will be discussed, examples of which include: Intelligentemente, Leo intervenne ‘Cleverly, Leo intervened’ and Leo fu intelligente a intervenire ‘Leo was clever to intervene’. We aim to ascertain if the argument structure of the adjective and the semantic role(s) which it assigns can shed light on the very same properties of the cognate adverb.

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“…Hence, these adverbs can be used as sentence-as well as verb-phrase-related modifiers (appearing higher or lower in the sentence), and for these two the difference is commonly taken to be one between an agent-/subject-oriented and a manner reading (see Kubota 2015, this volume). We will come back to this duality in Sect.…”

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Manner and degree: An introduction

Gehrke

Castroviejo

2015

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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This chapter provides an overview of semantic issues concerning manner and degree. This includes going over the theoretical questions that arise in the literature on VP modification and event semantics, as well as the research that has been carried out on gradable adjectives, scale structure and vagueness. This introduction further situates the papers and commentaries in this volume within this discussion. We end by outlining commonalities between manner and degree.

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Transforming manner adverbs into subject-oriented adverbs: evidence from Japanese

Cited by 13 publications

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Bipartite Agentivity Expression in Chinese Passives

Bipartite Agentivity Expression in Chinese Passives

The hidden side of adverbs

Manner and degree: An introduction

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