高見 健一

This paper attempts to make clear that there are two distinct types of adjuncts, which we call central and peripheral adjuncts. This proposal leads us to claim that there are three distinct levels of verb phrases, with one level for (adverbial) complements being added, and we call these three levels V1, V2, and V3. Furthermore, we point out that the two-level hypothesis for VP generally assumed in the recent framework of X-bar theory fails to capture in a consistent and convincing manner the differences which we observe in this paper.J V c. © 1987, The English Linguistic Society of Japan. All rights reserved.

In this note I would like to point out that both Reuland's 1983 analysis of missing subjects in adverbial clauses and the command constraint on them put forward by Langacker 1969 or Jackendoff 1972 run into serious counterexamples, and furthermore to make clear that the phenomena of missing subjects in adverbial clauses present various types of distributional differences according to what conjunction or which type of predicates (-ing,-ed, or verbless clauses) is used. © 1986, The English Linguistic Society of Japan. All rights reserved.