Adverbs and Adverbials: Categorial Issues

✍ Scribed by Olivier Duplâtre (editor); Pierre-Yves Modicom (editor)

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 2022
Tongue: English
Leaves: 288
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]; 371
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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 Romance and Germanic languages are being questioned and improved, drawing on data from English, German and Italian. The second part is devoted to adverbial scope in Romance (French, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese), Germanic, Modern Greek and Chinese, under special consideration of modal adverbs, subject-oriented manner adverbs and domain adverbs and adverbials. Syntactic and semantic relationships appear to lay the ground for a robust and fine-grained functional definition of adverbs and adverbials.

✦ Table of Contents

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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