Adjective adverb interfaces in Romance / edited by Martin Hummel, Salvador Valera.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salvador Valera

Contributor:

Hummel, Martin, editor.

Valera, Salvador, editor.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Volume 242.

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 0166-0829 ; Volume 242

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romance languages--Morphology.

Romance languages.

Romance languages--Abjectives.

Romance languages--Adverbials.

Romance languages--Grammar, Comparative.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 volume provides typological and theoretical insights into the common or different usage of adjectives and adverbs in Romance. Diachronic change is discussed alongside with synchronic variation and the representation in grammar. The discussion turns out to be controversial, calling into question traditional assumptions such as the dogma of the invariability and the categorial status of the adverb.

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

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

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

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

Chapter 5. Are intrapredicative adjectives adverbs?

2. Is there such a thing as adverbialized adjective?

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

4.3 The secondary predicates

5. Conclusion

Key to abbreviations

Part III. Italian

Chapter 6. Adverb agreement in the dialects of the Lausberg Area: Adverb agreement in the dialects of the Lausberg Area

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

Appendix

Part IV. Romanian

Chapter 7. Historical overview of the Romanian adverb

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

Sources

Chapter 8. Properties of Romanian adverbs and adjectives from a categorial status perspective

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

8. Conclusions

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

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

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

Chapter 11. From adjective to adverbial modal locutions in Spanish: From adjective to adverbial modal locutions in Spanish

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

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

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

Author queries

Language index

Subject index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

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