Adjective adverb interfaces in Romance /

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Within the current discussion on grammatical interfaces, the word-classes of adjective and adverb are of particular interest because they appear to be separated or joined in manifold ways at the level of word-class or syntax, with morphology playing a prominent role, especially in Romance. The volum...

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Superior document:Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, Volume 242
:
Salvador Valera
TeilnehmendeR:
Hummel, Martin,
Valera, Salvador,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ;, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, 2017.
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; Volume 242.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Adjective Adverb Interfaces in Romance
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • References
  • Part I. General aspects of Romance languages
  • Chapter 1. Adjectives with adverbial functions in Romance: Adjectives with adverbial functions in Romance
  • 1. Introduction: Adjective or adverb?
  • 2. Typology and variation
  • 2.1 Attributive modification
  • 2.2 Combining typology and variation
  • 2.3 Parts of speech and syntax
  • 3. Type A
  • 3.1 Pan-Romanic usage and oral tradition
  • 3.2 Latin
  • 3.3 The polyfunctionality of Type A
  • 4. Type B
  • 4.1 -mente as a correlate of standardization
  • 4.2 Type B in Latin
  • 5. Type C
  • 6. Type D
  • 7. Adverbial inflection and adverbial agreement
  • 7.1 Adverbial inflection
  • 7.2 Adverbial agreement
  • 8. The expansion of attributive modification to peripheral functions
  • 9. Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 2. Parameters in Romance adverb agreement
  • 1. Introduction: Narrowing the field
  • 2. Parameters of adverbial agr(eement)
  • 2.1 Pattern 1: No agr
  • 2.2 Pattern 2: Full active/stative split
  • 2.3 Pattern 3: Restricted active/stative split
  • 2.4 Pattern 4: Ergative split
  • 3. Formal approach: A quick sketch
  • 3.1 Parameter hierarchies
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 3. Before the complementizer: Adverb types and root clause modification
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Typology of adverbs before the complementizer
  • 3. Pragmatic adverbs: Grammaticalization towards discourse
  • 4. Pragmatic function and silent predicates
  • 4.1 Truth predicate and root clause modification
  • 4.2 Hearsay, quotatives and reported speech
  • 5. Back to sentential adverbs: Type-C adverbs
  • 6. Conclusions and final remarks
  • References
  • Part II. French
  • Chapter 4. Adjectives and adverbs in the Grande grammaire du français.
  • 1. The distinction between French adjectives and adverbs
  • 2. Categories and functions in the Grande grammaire du français
  • Syntactic categories in the GGF
  • Syntactic functions in the GGF
  • 3. Adverbs in the Grande grammaire du français
  • The GGF definition of adverbs
  • The distinction between prepositions and adverbs
  • A further test for French adverbs
  • The subclasses of adverbs in the GGF
  • The semantic subclasses of adverbs in the GGF
  • 4. Adjectives in the Grande grammaire du français
  • The GGF definition of adjectives
  • The distinction between nouns and adjectives
  • Adjectives inside the Noun Phrase
  • Adjectives inside the Verbal phrase
  • 5. The GGF distinction between adjectives and adverbs
  • Adjectives and adverbs with adjectives and nouns
  • The case of tout
  • The case of fort, juste, soudain
  • Adjective and adverb distinction in contemporary informal registers
  • 6. Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 5. Are intrapredicative adjectives adverbs?
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Is there such a thing as adverbialized adjective?
  • 3. Towards a genetic syntactic system: Incidence, determination and predication
  • 3. Towards a genetic syntactic system: Incidence, determination and predication
  • 4. Description of items
  • 4.1 Determiner of the verb (= determiner of the core of the DVPh)
  • 4.2 Determiner of the relation [Dét (or Dét Ø) → CoreDVPh], not included in verbal valency
  • 4.2 Determiner of the relation [Dét (or Dét Ø) → CoreDVPh], not included in verbal valency
  • 4.3 The secondary predicates
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Key to abbreviations
  • References
  • Part III. Italian
  • Chapter 6. Adverb agreement in the dialects of the Lausberg Area: Adverb agreement in the dialects of the Lausberg Area
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Adjectival adverbs
  • 2.1 Adverbs in southern Italian dialects.
  • 2.2 The dialects of the so-called Lausberg Area
  • 2.3 Adjectives or adverbs
  • 3. Adverb agreement in southern Italian dialects
  • 3.1 Patterns of adverb agreement
  • 3.2 Interim summary
  • 4. Notes on resultatives and pseudo-resultatives
  • 4.1 (Pseudo-)resultatives in SIDs
  • 4.2 The agreement of (pseudo-)resultatives
  • 5. Effects on past participle agreement
  • 5.1 The general picture
  • 5.2 Adjectival adverbs affect participle agreement
  • 6. Outline of a structural interpretation
  • 6.1 Adverb placement
  • 6.2 Adverb and participle agreement
  • 7. Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Appendix
  • Part IV. Romanian
  • Chapter 7. Historical overview of the Romanian adverb
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Latin adverbs in Romanian
  • 3. Borrowed adverbs
  • 4. Adverb derivation in -ește
  • 5. Adverbs ending in -mente
  • 6. Adverbialized adjectives
  • 7. Adverbialized participles
  • 8. Adverbial phrases
  • 9. Conclusions
  • References
  • Sources
  • Chapter 8. Properties of Romanian adverbs and adjectives from a categorial status perspective
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Types of Romanian adverbs
  • 2.1 Non-analysable adverbs
  • 2.2 Suffixed adverbs
  • 3. Non-typical adverbialisation
  • 3.1 Participial or supine forms
  • 3.2 Nouns
  • 4. Homonymic adverbs and adjectives and their distributional properties
  • 5. Adverbs as noun modifiers
  • 6. Parenthetical positions
  • 7. Derived adverbs and adjectives
  • 7.1 The adverbs derived with -ește
  • 7.2 The adjectives in -esc
  • 7.3 The properties of the adverbs with ește, between inflection and derivation
  • 7.3 The properties of the adverbs with ește, between inflection and derivation
  • 8. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Part V. Spanish.
  • Chapter 9. Adverbial adjectives and -mente adverbs face to face: Adverbial adjectives and -mente adverbs face to face: Diachronic evidence from Spanish
  • 1. Introduction: An intriguing relation
  • 2. State of the art
  • 2.1 Synchronic grammar
  • 2.2 Diachrony
  • 2.3 Sociolinguistics, text genre and register
  • 2.4 Dialectology
  • 2.5 Summary
  • 3. Corpus
  • 4. Research questions and hypothesis
  • 5. Analysis
  • 5.1 Adjacency
  • 5.2 Relative order of verb and adverb
  • 5.3 Nominality binding
  • 5.4 Complexity of the event
  • 6. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter 10. Descriptive and functional analysis of the solo-solamente adverbial pair in spoken Mexican Spanish: Descriptive and functional analysis of the solo-solamente adverbial pair in spoken Mexican Spanish: Descriptive and functional analysis of the
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Literature review
  • 2.1 Solo-solamente as focus operators
  • 2.2 Syntactic and pragmatic aspects of solo-solamente
  • 2.3 The adjective-adverb interface of solo-solamente
  • 3. Methodology
  • 4. Results
  • 4.1 Frequency of the solo-solamente adverbial pair
  • 4.2 Semantic function of solo-solamente
  • 4.3 Type of focus and syntactic function of the focus
  • 4.4 Syntactic position of solo-solamente
  • 4.5 The adverb-adjective interface of solo
  • 5. Final considerations
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter 11. From adjective to adverbial modal locutions in Spanish: From adjective to adverbial modal locutions in Spanish
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Corpus and methodology
  • 3. The state of the art
  • 4. Adjectives documented in the locution: Types and tokens
  • 4.1 First adjective in the locutions
  • 4.2 Adjectives entering in the Adverbial Modal Locution: Fifteenth-twentieth centuries
  • 4.2 Adjectives entering in the Adverbial Modal Locution: Fifteenth-twentieth centuries
  • 5. Concluding remarks.
  • Bibliography
  • a. Corpus
  • b. References
  • Chapter 12. Adverbial adjectives and the decomposition of event predicates: Adverbial adjectives and the decomposition of event predicates
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Adverbial adjectives and the syntactic decomposition of event predicates
  • 2. Adverbial adjectives and the syntactic decomposition of event predicates
  • 2.1 Adverbial adjectives and inherent modification
  • 2.2 Adverbial adjectives and eventive modification
  • 2.3 Adverbial adjectives and durative interpretation
  • 2.4 Adverbial adjectives and argumental interpretation
  • 3. Some ambiguities
  • 4. Adverbial adjectives and secondary predicates
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Author queries
  • Language index
  • Subject index.

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