This monograph investigates a number of central issues in the Syntax of Adverbs with special reference to Greek in the light of Kayne's (1994) Antisymmetry Hypothesis. It examines the conditions on the placement of the various adverb types, their licensing requirements, and their relation to adjectives. The author advances an analysis according to which adverbs are licensed as Specifiers of functional projections in the clausal domain. As such, they enter a matching relation with the relevant features of the respective functional head. Adverbs are either directly merged at the relevant functional projection (for instance Aspectual and Speaker Oriented adverbs) or alternatively they are moved to this position from the complement domain of the verb (for instance manner adverbs). Furthermore, the volume examines the phenomenon of Adverb Incorporation. It is proposed that Incorporation is obligatory for those VP internal Adverbs which are 'structuraly non-complex' in Chomsky's 1995 terms. Finally, the similarities and differences between adverbs and adjectives, clausal and nominal structure are investigated and a number of asymmetries between the two are highlighted.
2026. Adverbial hierarchy and verb movement in the early production of Italian children. Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 12:2 ► pp. 1 ff.
Toquero-Pérez, Luis Miguel
2026. Jewelry’s missing “jewel”: Containment, doublets, and gaps as probes into countability and the count/mass distinction. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 44:1
Alexeyenko, Sascha
2025. On the Categorial Status of Adverbs. Languages 10:7 ► pp. 149 ff.
Axel-Tober, Katrin, Marco Coniglio, Kalle Müller & Katharina Paul
2025. Understanding Manner Modification from a Cross-Dependency Perspective. Languages 10:5 ► pp. 88 ff.
Giannoula, Mina
2025. Deciphering Mirror Principle violations: Mechanisms behind the formation of preverbed verbal complexes in Modern Greek. Morphology 35:3 ► pp. 305 ff.
Hopperdietzel, Jens & Artemis Alexiadou
2025. Marked unergatives: Syntactic ergativity and nominalizations. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 43:4 ► pp. 2617 ff.
Kaye, Steven
2025. Clausal agreement on adverbs in Andi. Linguistics 63:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Kosta, Peter
2025. On TIME – The Incremental Compositionality of TEMPORALITY and Aspectuality. In Slavische Welt(en) im Umbruch: Einzeldarstellungen zu Ehren von Norbert Nübler, ► pp. 59 ff.
Mahdavi Mazdeh, Mohsen
2025. Word order and stress reconstruction in Persian. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 10:1
Nogueira Sánchez, Laura
2025. Sentence-medial adverb placement in Spanish: acceptability and preference. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 10:1
2023. Aboutwhat about: the semantics and syntax of irregularwh-questions in English. Linguistics 61:1 ► pp. 159 ff.
Li, Wenshan & Jiang Liu
2023. What is what if?. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 42:2 ► pp. 275 ff.
ZEIJLSTRA, HEDDE
2023. FOFC and what left–right asymmetries may tell us about syntactic structure building. Journal of Linguistics 59:1 ► pp. 179 ff.
Fischer, Silke & Inghild Flaate Høyem
2022. Adjunct control in German, Norwegian, and English. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 25:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Katsika, Kalliopi, Maria Lialiou & Shanley E.M. Allen
2022. The Influence of Case and Word Order in Child and Adult Processing of Relative Clauses in Greek. Languages 7:3 ► pp. 206 ff.
Koronkiewicz, Bryan
2022. Adverbs in Spanish–English code-switching: Comparing verb raising and non-raising. International Journal of Bilingualism 26:2 ► pp. 227 ff.
Koronkiewicz , Bryan
2025. Adverb position in heritage and L2 Spanish-English code-switching. Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics 14:2 ► pp. 357 ff.
Marqueta Gracia, Bárbara
2022. Las Relaciones gramaticales en los compuestos del español. Una propuesta de clasificación basada en criterios sintácticos y categoriales . Verba: Anuario Galego de Filoloxía► pp. 1 ff.
Pavlou, Natalia
2022. The Morphotactics of the Cypriot Greek Augment. Languages 7:2 ► pp. 149 ff.
Satık, Deniz
2022. The strong minimalist thesis is too strong: Syntax is more than just merge. Biolinguistics 16
Satık, Deniz
2022. Cartography: Innateness or Convergent Cultural Evolution?. Frontiers in Psychology 13
ALQARNI, MUTEB
2021. The syntax of PP-adverbs within English determiner phrases. English Language and Linguistics 25:2 ► pp. 325 ff.
Chen, Zhe & Yafei Li
2021. Bipartite Agentivity Expression in Chinese Passives. Syntax 24:1 ► pp. 123 ff.
2020. Variation in auxiliary to T movement: evidence from adverbs. <i>WORD</i> 66:1 ► pp. 40 ff.
Biondo, Nicoletta, Francesco Vespignani & Brian Dillon
2019. Attachment and Concord of Temporal Adverbs: Evidence From Eye Movements. Frontiers in Psychology 10
Gu, Feng
2019. Issues on the Adverb 其 qí in Archaic Chinese. In New Perspectives on Aspect and Modality in Chinese Historical Linguistics [Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics, 5], ► pp. 79 ff.
Moulton, Keir
2019. Adverbs in VP ellipsis: an experimental investigation of antecedent selection. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 64:3 ► pp. 475 ff.
Biondo, Nicoletta, Francesco Vespignani, Luigi Rizzi & Simona Mancini
2018. Widening agreement processing: a matter of time, features and distance. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 33:7 ► pp. 890 ff.
Fyndanis, Valantis, Giorgio Arcara, Paraskevi Christidou & David Caplan
2018. Morphosyntactic Production and Verbal Working Memory: Evidence From Greek Aphasia and Healthy Aging. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 61:5 ► pp. 1171 ff.
Larson, Richard K.
2018. AP-de (地) Adverbs in Mandarin. Studies in Chinese Linguistics 39:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Ott, Dennis
2018. Stylistic Fronting as Remnant Movement. Studia Linguistica 72:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Delfitto, Denis & Gaetano Fiorin
2017. Adverb Classes and Adverb Placement. In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition, ► pp. 1 ff.
te Velde, John R.
2017. Temporal adverbs in thekiezdeutschleft periphery: Combining late merge with deaccentuation for v3. Studia Linguistica 71:3 ► pp. 301 ff.
2016. Noun incorporation and phrasal movement. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 34:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Barrie, Michael & Éric Mathieu
2012. Head Movement and Noun Incorporation. Linguistic Inquiry 43:1 ► pp. 133 ff.
Dimković-Telebaković, Gordana
2016. Phrase Structure Patterning and Licensing for English and Serbian Speaker-Oriented Adverb Subclasses. Romanian Journal of English Studies 13:1 ► pp. 99 ff.
Haeberli, Eric & Tabea Ihsane
2016. Revisiting the loss of verb movement in the history of English. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 34:2 ► pp. 497 ff.
Meisterernst, Barbara
2016. The syntax of aspecto-temporal adverbs from Late Archaic to Early Medieval Chinese. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 25:2 ► pp. 143 ff.
Punske, Jeffrey
2016. Cyclicity versus movement: English nominalization and syntactic approaches to morpho-phonological regularity. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 61:1 ► pp. 68 ff.
2014. Non-lyadverbs in preverbal position: the case offast. English Language and Linguistics 18:1 ► pp. 133 ff.
Arnaut-Karović, Kamiah
2013. SOME CONSTRAINTS ON PASSIVE ATTRIBUTES AND PROBLEMS OF CATEGORIZATION. Zbornik radova Islamskog pedagoškog fakulteta u Zenici (Online)► pp. 245 ff.
AUROVÁ, Miroslava
2013. The use of subjuntive/indicative with the operator quizás(s): corpus analysis. Écho des études romanes 9:1 ► pp. 19 ff.
Pitteroff, Marcel & Cinzia Campanini
2013. Variation in analytic causative constructions: a view on German and Romance. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 16:2-3 ► pp. 209 ff.
Rawlins, Kyle
2013. On Adverbs of (Space and) Time. In Studies in the Composition and Decomposition of Event Predicates [Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 93], ► pp. 153 ff.
Gärtner, Hans-Martin & Beáta Gyuris
2012. Pragmatic markers in Hungarian: Some introductory remarks. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 59:4 ► pp. 387 ff.
Li, Yafei, Rebecca Shields & Vivian Lin
2012. Adverb classes and the nature of minimality. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 30:1 ► pp. 217 ff.
Barrie, Michael
2011. Unifying Antisymmetry and Bare Phrase Structure. In Dynamic Antisymmetry and the Syntax of Noun Incorporation [Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 84], ► pp. 53 ff.
Barrie, Michael
2011. V+N Order. In Dynamic Antisymmetry and the Syntax of Noun Incorporation [Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 84], ► pp. 159 ff.
Barrie, Michael
2011. Noun Incorporation and Its Kind in Other Languages. In Dynamic Antisymmetry and the Syntax of Noun Incorporation [Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 84], ► pp. 127 ff.
Barrie, Michael
2012. Antisymmetry and Dynamic Antisymmetry. Language and Linguistics Compass 6:1 ► pp. 21 ff.
Stringer, David, Beatrix Burghardt, Hyun-Kyoung Seo & Yi-Ting Wang
2011. Straight on through to Universal Grammar: Spatial modifiers in second language acquisition. Second Language Research 27:3 ► pp. 289 ff.
ALEXIADOU, ARTEMIS, GIANINA IORDĂCHIOAIA & ELENA SOARE
2010. Number/aspect interactions in the syntax of nominalizations: A Distributed approach. Journal of Linguistics 46:3 ► pp. 537 ff.
Csirmaz, Anikó
2009. Multiplicatives, frequency and quantification adverbs. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 56:2-3 ► pp. 131 ff.
Massam, Diane
2009. Noun Incorporation: Essentials and Extensions. Language and Linguistics Compass 3:4 ► pp. 1076 ff.
Beijer, Fabian
2008. Dagmar Haumann, Adverb licensing and clause structure in English (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today105). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2007. Pp. ix+435.. Journal of Linguistics 44:1 ► pp. 238 ff.
Speas, Peggy
2008. On the Syntax and Semantics of Evidentials. Language and Linguistics Compass 2:5 ► pp. 940 ff.
Frascarelli, Mara
2007. Subjects, topics and the interpretation of referential pro. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 25:4 ► pp. 691 ff.
Bhatt, Rajesh & Roumyana Pancheva
2006. Conditionals. In The Blackwell Companion to Syntax, ► pp. 638 ff.
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Marušič, Franc & Rok Žaucer
2006. On the Intensional Feel-Like Construction in Slovenian: A Case of a Phonologically Null Verb. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 24:4 ► pp. 1093 ff.
Koenig, Jean-Pierre & Nuttanart Muansuwan
2005. The Syntax of Aspect in Thai. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 23:2 ► pp. 335 ff.
Pancheva, Roumyana
2005. The Rise and Fall of Second-position Clitics. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 23:1 ► pp. 103 ff.
Piñón, Christopher
2005. Adverbs of Completion in an Event Semantics. In Perspectives on Aspect [Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, 32], ► pp. 149 ff.
Costa, João
2004. A multifactorial approach to adverb placement: assumptions, facts, and problems. Lingua 114:6 ► pp. 711 ff.
Haider, Hubert
2004. Pre- and postverbal adverbials in OV and VO. Lingua 114:6 ► pp. 779 ff.
Müller, Gereon
2004. Verb-Second as vP-First. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 7:3 ► pp. 179 ff.
Potsdam, Eric
2004. The syntax of adjuncts. By Thomas Ernst. (Cambridge studies in linguistics.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. 568. ISBN 052177134X. $95 (Hb).. Language 80:3 ► pp. 594 ff.
Roberts, Ian & Anna Roussou
2003. Syntactic Change,
Ackema, Peter & Ad Neeleman
2002. Morphological selection and representational modularity. In Yearbook of Morphology 2001 [Yearbook of Morphology, ], ► pp. 1 ff.
Bobaljik, Jonathan David
2002. A-Chains At The Pf-Interface: Copies And `Covert Movement. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 20:2 ► pp. 197 ff.
Haegeman, Liliane
2002. Sentence-Medial NP-Adjuncts in English. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 25:1 ► pp. 79 ff.
Tortora, Christina
2002. Romance Enclisis, Prepositions, and Aspect. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 20:4 ► pp. 725 ff.
Aldridge, Edith
2001. Hentai Kambun Perspective on Short Scrambling. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 10:2 ► pp. 169 ff.
Ernst, Thomas
2001. The Syntax of Adjuncts,
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Ernst, Thomas
2020. The Syntax of Adverbials. Annual Review of Linguistics 6:1 ► pp. 89 ff.
Maienborn, Claudia
2001. On the Position and Interpretation of Locative Modifiers. Natural Language Semantics 9:2 ► pp. 191 ff.
NAKAMURA, YOSHIO
2001. Categorization and Licensing of Subordinating Conjunctions (D. Haumann, The Syntax of Subordination). ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 18:2 ► pp. 593 ff.
Alexiadou, Artemis
1999. On the Properties of Some Greek Word Order Patterns. In Studies in Greek Syntax [Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 43], ► pp. 45 ff.
Haeberli, Eric
1999. On the word order 'XP-subject' in the Germanic languages. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 3:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
MIZUNO, EIKO
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