Abstract
This paper aims to account for the fact that VP adverbs accompanied by their complements must appear in sentence-final position. It is argued that this distributional restriction follows from the interaction between the mechanisms of adverbial modification and linearization. The proposed mechanism of adverbial modification requires VP adverbs to be adjoined to projections of V or v, while the proposed mechanism of linearization requires that adverbs with complements must be adjoined to phases for the sentence to be properly linearlized, which results in their appearance in the right periphery. The same mechanisms are further shown to be naturally extended to explain distributional properties of subject- and speaker-oriented adverbs.
