0 something added or connected to a larger or more important thing: --
1 In grammar, an adjunct is an adverb or phrase that gives extra information in a sentence. --
2 something added or connected to something larger or more important: --
3 something that is added or connected to a larger or more important thing: --
While adjuncts are not used in characterizing the classes, it is possible they may contain highly distinguishing information correlated with semantic class.
They show that only selected constituents are interpreted idiomatically; for unselected elements (such as adjuncts), only strictly compositional interpretations are available.
Analyzing the alternation in (3) as an argument alternation would force us to treat the oblique phrases as arguments rather than as adjuncts.
According to this account, discourse-level information may influence early parsing decisions, but only for adjuncts and modifiers that occur within a given thematic domain.
Generally, predicational adjuncts with clausal readings are preverbal, while functional and participant adjuncts can be either preverbal or postverbal.
Adverbial adjuncts have a wide range of positions, constrained by their selectional restrictions and the system of compositional rules.
The emphasis lies on functional time-related and quantificational adjuncts, and their interaction with various auxiliaries and negation.
In other words, there are very few senior (professorial) positions but many lecturers, adjuncts, and part-timers.
