Thomas Ernst
List of John Benjamins publications in which Thomas Ernst is involved.
Articles
2022 “Descriptive complements” are manner adverbials New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax: Studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li, Simpson, Andrew (ed.), pp. 111–132 | Chapter
The Mandarin “descriptive complement” construction (e.g. Ta pao-de kuai “S/he runs fast”) is often analyzed as a verb plus a syntactic complement, but I argue that the postverbal de-phrase is in fact a manner adverbial. Several facts about the construction, including morphological and… read more
2004 Domain adverbs and the syntax of adjuncts Adverbials: The interplay between meaning, context, and syntactic structure, Austin, Jennifer R., Stefan Engelberg and Gisa Rauh (eds.), pp. 103–129 | Article
2003 Adjuncts and word order asymmetries Asymmetry in Grammar: Volume 1: Syntax and semantics, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 187–207 | Article