Adverbs and Adverbials Categorial Issues.

Adverbs and Adverbials Categorial Issues.

Adverbs seem to raise unsolvable issues for theories of word-classes, both crosslinguistically and language-internally. The contributions in this volume all address this categorial problem from a variety of formal and functional points of view. In the first part, current definitions of the class for...

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Other Authors: Duplâtre, Olivier, Modicom, Pierre-Yves
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter, Inc., 2022.
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 371
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Adverb.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Adverbials.
Adverbialbestimmung.
Adverbien.
Syntax.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Adverbs and adverbials: Categorial issues
  • I Delimitational approaches
  • 1 Consistency of the class
  • The incoherence of the English adverb class
  • The subcategorization of English adverbs: A feature-based clustering approach
  • 2 Margins of the class
  • Proteus: Adverbial multi-word expressions in Italian and their cognate counterparts in -mente
  • Prenominal adverbs in German? The cases of auf and zu
  • II Classificational approaches
  • 3 Adverbial scope: beyond the low / high dichotomy
  • 'Sentence adverbs' don't exist!
  • Formal and functional features of modal adverbs in French and Modern Greek
  • Different types of subject-oriented adverbials in French and in Mandarin Chinese: A contrastive study
  • 4 The case of domain adverb(ial)s
  • Domain adverbials and morphology: The rivalry between -mäßig and -technisch in German
  • Framing, segmenting, indexing: Towards a functional account of Romance domain adverbs in written texts
  • List of contributors
  • Index

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