ALL THE WAY ADJUNCTS AND THE SYNTAX-CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE INTERFACE

Abstract

After elucidating the semantics of Route phrases in motion sentences, this paper addresses itself to a novel type of adjunct involving all the way, as in She coughed all the way to her office. This construction is peculiar not only because the modifier all the way is obligatory (She coughed to her office) but also because it involves dual predications denoting the occurrence of the main verb's event and the subject's movement to the designated goal. These peculiarities are accounted for by a special operation on Conceptual Structure that creates a motion event from a non-motion event. Theoretical proposals are also made to distinguish between motional and resultative constructions and to resolve the issues of telicity and functional categories for adverbials.