On the Relative Order of IP-adverbials (original) (raw)

2002, The Department of English in Lund Working Papers in Linguistics Vol 1

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This paper explores the relative order of sentential adverbs in English and Swedish, building on Cinque's (1999) hypothesis that this order is universally fixed rather than arbitrary. Through a pilot study based on corpus data, it examines syntactic environments and the implications of universal grammar in understanding adverbial placement, arguing that certain adverbs do not fit within Cinque's hierarchical framework.

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