Manner Adverbs and Scope
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Kyle Rawlins ( UC Santa Cruz )
A puzzling observation, first noted in Austin 1956, is that the syntactic position of an adverb can affect the meaning of a sentence. (1) a. Clumsily he trod on the snail. (Austin 1956) b. He trod on the snail clumsily. (2) a. Cleverly, John dropped his cup of coffee. (Jackendoff 1972) b. John dropped his cup of coffee cleverly. (3) a. Louisa rudely departed. (McConnell-Ginet 1982) b. Louisa de...
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