The structural and semantic properties of adverbials represent a still poorly understood area
of sentential syntax and semantics in Germanic languages. In particular it is an open question
which different adverbial usages need to be distinguished which usages are tied to which
syntactic positions and how these different usage can be formally analyzed. Focussing on
adverbial adjectives in German this study provides detailed answers to these questions. By
distinguishing between verb-related adverbials and event-related adverbials the author
provides a new analysis of the large class of adverbials traditionally labelled as manner
adverbials. It is shown that the two different classes are linked to different syntactic
positions and formal analyses and derivations for the two different usages are developed. The
book is therefore of interest not only to anyone working on the linguistics of German but also
to all linguists working on the syntax-semantics interface and the formal analysis of
adverbials.
