A workspace-based theory of adjuncts
Daniel Milway
December 2020 

I present and argue for a theory of adjuncts according to which, adjuncts and their respective hosts are derived in separate, parallel workspaces that are not combined until forced to by the process of linearization. I argue that this follows from the basic facts of adjuncts, which only make sense if hosts and adjuncts are truly separate from each other. I formalize the notion of the workspace, and the workspace-based operation MERGE (Chomsky 2019). Finally, I show that this approach to adjuncts naturally accounts for Adjunct Islands and Parasitic Gaps and is consistent with adjective ordering constraints.

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keywords:	theory, adjuncts, derivation, parasitic gaps, workspaces, syntax
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