Adverbs and adverbials : categorial issues / edited by Olivier Duplâtre and Pierre-Yves Modicom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duplâtre, Olivier, editor.

Modicom, Pierre-Yves, editor.

Series:

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 1861-4302 371.

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs [TiLSM], 1861-4302 ; volume 371.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Adverb.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Adverbials.

Physical Description:

vi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2022]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes abstracts, bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783110767940

3110767945

OCLC:

1317683020