Manner and Event (De)composition

This paper investigates the interaction between manner modifiers & the two types of events, referred to as micro-events & macro-events. The focus is on phenomena in which two micro-events are required to be in a special relation (correspondence) with each other. In the context where this requirement is at work, the unfolding of the causing micro-event must correspond to the unfolding of the caused micro-event. The correspondence restriction is thus treated as a condition on two micro-events (Krifka 1999). However, I show that manner adverbs, which are traditionally construed as predicates of macro-events (Davidson 1967) may also trigger the correspondence restriction. I argue that the correspondence restriction results when a certain manner modifier applies to a macro-event & that these manner modifiers may manifest as a part of the lexical information of a verb, as discussed in Krifka (1999), or as an adverb, as shown in this paper. References. Adapted from the source document