Difference between revisions of "Adjunct"

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Adjunct is a constituent in an adjoined position.

"Adjuncts (of place, time, manner, reason, etc....) are optional, or structurally dispensable, constituents of the sentence: they may be removed without affecting the remainder of the sentence." (Lyons 1968:334)

In [_X Y [_X ...]] Y is Chomsky -adjoined to X.

(i) John killed Bill in Central Park on Sunday.

(ii) John killed Bill in Central Park.

(iii) John killed Bill.

Usually the term 'adjunct' refers to base-generated adjuncts only.

Lyons, John. 1968. Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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 '''Adjunct''' is a constituent in an [[adjoin]]ed position.
+:::*"Adjuncts (of place, time, manner, reason, etc....) are optional, or structurally dispensable, constituents of the sentence: they may be removed without affecting the remainder of the sentence." (Lyons 1968:334)
-===Example===
+===Examples===
 In [<sub>X</sub> Y [<sub>X</sub> ...]] Y is ''Chomsky -[[adjoin]]ed'' to X.
+(i) ''John killed Bill in Central Park on Sunday.''
+(ii) ''John killed Bill in Central Park.''
+(iii) ''John killed Bill.''
 ===Comment===
 Usually the term 'adjunct' refers to base-generated adjuncts only.
+===Other languages===
+German [[Adjunktion]] Chinese [[附加语]]
 ===Link===
 [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Adjunct&lemmacode=987 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
+===Reference===
+{{: Lyons 1968}}
 {{dc}}
 [[Category:Syntax]]