What is an adjunct?

An adjunct, broadly defined, is an optional constituent of a construction.

This term is likely to be used by various authors in a variety of restricted senses.

• What is a noun adjunct?

• What is a syntactic function?

Crystal 1985 8

Hartmann and Stork 1972 5

Andrews, A. 1985 89

Richards, Platt, and Weber 1985 5

Context for this page:

• Concept module: adjunct
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): A
• In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
• In bookshelf: Linguistics

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