This book clarifies - on the basis of mainly Hungarian data - basic issues concerning the
category 'adverb ' the function 'adverbial ' and the grammar of adverbial modification. It
argues for the PP analysis of adverbials and claims that they enter the derivation via left-
and right-adjunction. Their merge-in position is determined by the interplay of syntactic
semantic and prosodic factors. The semantically motivated constraints discussed also include a
type restriction affecting adverbials semantically incorporated into the verbal predicate an
obligatory focus position for scalar adverbs representing negative values of bidirectional
scales cooccurrence restrictions between verbs and adverbials involving incompatible subevents
etc. The order and interpretation of adverbials in the postverbal domain is shown to be
affected by such phonologically motivated constraints as the Law of Growing Constituents and
by intonation phrase restructuring. The shape of the light-headed chain arising in the course
of locative PP incorporation is determined by morpho-phonological requirements. The types of
adverbs and adverbials analyzed include locatives temporals comitatives epistemic adverbs
adverbs of degree manner counting and frequency quantificational adverbs and adverbial
participles.
