THE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF FOCUS-SENSITIVE PARTICLES IN GERMAN

摘要: We propose a comprehensive account of both the distribution and interpretation German focus particles such as nur, auch sogar (`only', `also', `even'). argue that they always adjoin to non-arguments (in recent terms this means can VPs, IPs, APs root CPs, but never argument DPs or CPs), do not undergo LF raising. Presenting range mostly new data observations, we show how theory accounts for variety puzzling distributional facts about adverbial ad-adjectival particles, in particular, their specific interpretations behavior with respect scope reconstruction.