Adverbs and Adverbials

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 da...

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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.

List of abbreviations VII
Olivier Duplâtre & Pierre-Yves Modicom
Introduction – Adverbs and adverbials: Categorial issues 1
IDelimitational approaches
1Consistency of the class
Romain Delhem
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List of abbreviations VII
Olivier Duplâtre & Pierre-Yves Modicom
Introduction – Adverbs and adverbials: Categorial issues 1
IDelimitational approaches
1Consistency of the class
Romain Delhem
The incoherence of the English adverb class 33
Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer & Antony Unwin
The subcategorization of English adverbs: A feature-based clustering
approach 55
2Margins of the class
Ignazio Mauro Mirto
Proteus: Adverbial multi-word expressions in Italian and their cognate
counterparts in –mente 87
Marius Albers
Prenominal adverbs in German? The cases of auf and zu 109
IIClassificational approaches
3Adverbial scope: beyond the low / high dichotomy
Aquiles Tescari Neto
‘Sentence adverbs’ don’t exist! 139
Fryni Kakoyianni-Doa
Formal and functional features of modal adverbs in French
and Modern Greek 167
Jian Courteaud Zhang
Different types of subject-oriented adverbials in French and in Mandarin
Chinese: A contrastive study 195
4The case of domain adverb(ial)s
Martina Werner & Nina C. Rastinger
Domain adverbials and morphology: The rivalry between -mäßig and -technisch
in German 229
Anna-Maria De Cesare
Framing, segmenting, indexing: Towards a functional account of Romance
domain adverbs in written texts 249
List of contributors 277
Index 279
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