Against the Argument-Adjunct Distinction in Functional Generative Description

Against the Argument-Adjunct Distinction in Functional Generative Description

The aim of this paper is to critically examine the tests used to distinguish arguments from adjuncts in Functional Generative Description (Sgall et al., 1986) and to question the general usefulness of this distinction. In particular, we demonstrate that neither of the two tests used in FGD to distin...

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Main Author: Przepiórkowski Adam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2016-10-01
Series:Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/pralin-2016-0008
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spelling doaj-c3f46885be1e4c0cb8707d549ea045bb2021-09-05T13:59:53ZengSciendoPrague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics 1804-04622016-10-01106152010.1515/pralin-2016-0008pralin-2016-0008Against the Argument-Adjunct Distinction in Functional Generative DescriptionPrzepiórkowski Adam0Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, PolandThe aim of this paper is to critically examine the tests used to distinguish arguments from adjuncts in Functional Generative Description (Sgall et al., 1986) and to question the general usefulness of this distinction. In particular, we demonstrate that neither of the two tests used in FGD to distinguish inner participants from free adverbials (i.e. tests based on iterability and specificity) stands up to scrutiny, and we also point out practical problems with the application of the dialogue test, used to distinguish semantically obligatory and semantically optional dependents. Since these tests are among the most frequently cited tests for the Argument-Adjunct Distinction in contemporary linguistics, these results cast a shadow on the general validity of this dichotomy.https://doi.org/10.1515/pralin-2016-0008
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description The aim of this paper is to critically examine the tests used to distinguish arguments from adjuncts in Functional Generative Description (Sgall et al., 1986) and to question the general usefulness of this distinction. In particular, we demonstrate that neither of the two tests used in FGD to distinguish inner participants from free adverbials (i.e. tests based on iterability and specificity) stands up to scrutiny, and we also point out practical problems with the application of the dialogue test, used to distinguish semantically obligatory and semantically optional dependents. Since these tests are among the most frequently cited tests for the Argument-Adjunct Distinction in contemporary linguistics, these results cast a shadow on the general validity of this dichotomy.
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