Adverbs and Adverbials : : Categorial Issues /

Adverbs and Adverbials : : Categorial Issues / / ed. by Olivier Duplâtre, Pierre-Yves Modicom.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Albers, Marius,
De Cesare, Anna-Maria,
Delhem, Romain,
Duplâtre, Olivier,
Kakoyianni-Doa, Fryni,
Mauro Mirto, Ignazio,
Modicom, Pierre-Yves,
Rastinger, Nina C.,
Sanchez-Stockhammer, Christina,
Tescari Neto, Aquiles,
Unwin, Antony,
Werner, Martina,
Zhang, Jian Courteaud,
HerausgeberIn:
Duplâtre, Olivier,
Modicom, Pierre-Yves,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 371
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 280 p.)
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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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