Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: It has been known since Barbiers (2001) that genoeg ‘enough’ can turn predicate adverbs into sentence adverbs. When genoeg occurs in a sentence adverbial phrase, it is syntactically obligatory, but makes little to no semantic contribution: (1) Kees heeft gek * (genoeg) niet gek genoeg gedanst. Kees has weird * (enough) not weird enough danced ‘Weirdly, Kees didn’t dance weirdly enough.’ In this paper, I analyse the external and internal syntax of such enough support adverbs. Using Cinque’s (1999) adverbial hierarchy, I observe that enough support splits into subject-oriented and evaluative adverbs . Next, I nuance the accepted theory that genoeg in adverbial phrases is an affix: only enough support is a full-fledged affix; regular enough is an affixoid. Finally, I analyse the internal syntax of enough support . I suggest that a Sentence Predicate Projection is needed for the formation of sentence adverbials.
Source: Nota Bene
DOI: 10.1075/nb.00019.koo
Author: Malte Koot
Institution: Leiden University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4406806122