| description |
Jan-Wouter Zwart. 2023. Modal adverbs, conjunction reduction, and the structure of coordination. In M. Ryan Bochnak, Eva Csipak, Lisa Matthewson, Marcin Morzycki and Daniel K.E. Reisinger, eds. The title of this volume is shorter than its contributions are allowed to be: Papers in honour of Hotze Rullmann (UBC Occasional Papers in Linguistics 9), 405-416. Vancouver: University of British Columbia. |
| type | Reviewed Festschrift article. |
| ID | 2023b | 175b | DOI | July 19, 2023, revised September 15, 2023, published December 8, 2023, officially published November 29, 2024. |
| origin | Invited contribution to a Festschrift for Hotze Rullmann. |
| keywords | coordination; Collins conjunctions; conjunction reduction; modal adverbs; phrase structure |
| summary |
This article revisits Collins' (1988) analysis of coordinated constructions with a modal adverb, such as John and perhaps Mary went to the store. I present a range of arguments supporting Collins' conclusion that the derivation of this type of construction does not involve conjunction reduction. However, unlike Collins, I argue that the adverb modifies the second conjunct locally, qualifying the inclusion of the second conjunct in the relevant set. If so, the distribution of modal adverbs like perhaps inside coordinate noun phrases should not be interpreted as motivating the head status of the conjunction, as Collins argued. |
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