Adjunct Adverbials in English

Adjunct Adverbials in English
Author: Hilde Hasselgård
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2010-02-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1139486233
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In this original study, Hilde Hasselgård discusses the use of adverbials in English, through examining examples found in everyday texts. Adverbials - clause elements that typically refer to circumstances of time, space, reason and manner - cover a range of meanings and can be placed at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of a sentence. The description of the frequency of meaning types and discussion of the reasons for selecting positions show that the use of adverbials differs across text types. Adverbial usage is often linked to the general build-up of a text and part of its content and purpose. In using real texts, Hasselgård identifies a challenge for the classification of adjuncts, and also highlights that some adjuncts have uses that extend into the textual and interpersonal domains, obscuring the traditional divisions between adjuncts, disjuncts and conjuncts.

Adverbs and Modality in English

Adverbs and Modality in English
Author: Leo Hoye
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 131789359X
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This new study on modality in English represents a departure from more traditional approaches to the subject, where the modal auxiliaries have been the usual focus of attention, by examining in detail the nature of their association with different categories of modal adverb. Modality is notoriously complex but the present work offers an accessible introduction to the topic, a comprehensive account of modal-adverb co-occurrence, and a reappraisal of the English modal system. The descriptive framework draws fresh insights from syntactic, semantic and pragmatic approaches to the study of language and communication, and from recent work in corpus linguistics. The book includes contrastive reference to the expression of modality in Spanish and a discussion of modality in such applied contexts as language teaching. A major feature is its reliance on authentic spoken and written language data. The study is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics, English language, communications studies and related disciplines.

Modern Syntax

Modern Syntax
Author: Andrew Carnie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2011-01-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1139495046
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This practical coursebook introduces all the basics of modern syntactic analysis in a simple step-by-step fashion. Each unit is constructed so that the reader discovers new ideas, formulates hypotheses and practises fundamentals. The reader is presented with short sections of explanation with examples, followed by practice exercises. Feedback and comment sections follow to enable students to monitor their progress. No previous background in syntax is assumed. Students move through all the key topics in the field including features, rules of combination and displacement, empty categories, and subcategorization. The theoretical perspective in this work is unique, drawing together the best ideas from three major syntactic frameworks (minimalism, HPSG and LFG). Students using this book will learn fundamentals in such a way that they can easily go on to pursue further study in any of these frameworks.

Adverbs and Adverbial Adjuncts at the Interfaces

Adverbs and Adverbial Adjuncts at the Interfaces
Author: Katalin É. Kiss
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2009-05-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110214806
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This book clarifies - on the basis of mainly Hungarian data - basic issues concerning the category ‘adverb,’ the function ‘adverbial,’ and the grammar of adverbial modification. It argues for the PP analysis of adverbials, and claims that they enter the derivation via left- and right-adjunction. Their merge-in position is determined by the interplay of syntactic, semantic, and prosodic factors. The semantically motivated constraints discussed also include a type restriction affecting adverbials semantically incorporated into the verbal predicate, an obligatory focus position for scalar adverbs representing negative values of bidirectional scales, cooccurrence restrictions between verbs and adverbials involving incompatible subevents, etc. The order and interpretation of adverbials in the postverbal domain is shown to be affected by such phonologically motivated constraints as the Law of Growing Constituents, and by intonation phrase restructuring. The shape of the light-headed chain arising in the course of locative PP incorporation is determined by morpho-phonological requirements. The types of adverbs and adverbials analyzed include locatives, temporals, comitatives, epistemic adverbs, adverbs of degree, manner, counting, and frequency, quantificational adverbs, and adverbial participles.

Adverbs and Adverbials

Adverbs and Adverbials
Author: Olivier Duplâtre
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2022-06-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110768011
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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.

4,000 Useful Adverbs In English

4,000 Useful Adverbs In English
Author: Manik Joshi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2020-07-23
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ISBN:
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DEFINITION: An adverb is a word used to describe or modify a verb, an adjective or another adverbs. They tell us how (in what manner), how much (in what degree), how far (to what extent), when (in what time), and where (in what place). They are called 'adverb questions'. 4,000 Useful Adverbs: - NOTE: All of the following words are definitely used as adverbs, but many of them can also be used as nouns, verbs, etc. -- Useful Adverbs -- 'A'--- 1. abashedly, 2. aberrantly, 3. abhorrently, 4. abidingly, 5. abjectly, 6. ably, 7. abnormally, 8. aboard, 9. abominably, 10. abortively, 11. about, 12. above, 13. above board, 14. abrasively, 15. abroad, 16. abruptly, 17. absently, 18. absent-mindedly, 19. absolutely, 20. absorbedly, 21. absorbingly, 22. abstemiously, 23. abstinently, 24. abstractedly, 25. abstractly, 26. absurdly, 27. abundantly, 28. abusively, 29. abysmally, 30. academically, 31. acceptably, 32. acceptingly, 33. accessibly, 34. accidentally, 35. accommodatingly, 36. accomplishedly, 37. accordingly, 38. accountably, 39. accumulatively, 40. accurately, 41. accursedly, 42. accusatorily, 43. accusingly, 44. achingly, 45. acidly, 46. acoustically, 47. acquiescently, 48. acquisitively, 49. acrimoniously, 50. acrobatically, 51. across, 52. actionably, 53. actively, 54. actually, 55. acutely, 56. adamantly, 57. adaptively, 58. addictively, 59. additionally, 60. adeptly, 61. adequately, 62. adherently, 63. adhesively, 64. adjacently, 65. adjectivally, 66. adjustably, 67. administratively, 68. admirably, 69. admiringly, 70. admissibly, 71. admittedly, 72. adolescently, 73. adoptively, 74. adorably, 75. adoringly, 76. adroitly, 77. adulterously, 78. advantageously, 79. adventitiously, 80. adventurously, 81. adverbially, 82. adversely, 83. advisably, 84. advisedly, 85. aerially, 86. aerobically, 87. aeronautically, 88. aesthetically, 89. affably, 90. affectedly, 91. affectionately, 92. affectively, 93. affirmatively, 94. affluently, 95. affordably, 96. afoul, 97. afterwards, 98. again, 99. agedly, 100. agelessly, 101. aggregately, 102. aggressively, 103. aggrievedly, 104. agitatedly, 105. agonizingly, 106. agreeably, 107. agriculturally, 108. ahead, 109. aimlessly, 110. airlessly, 111. alarmingly, 112. alcoholically, 113. alertly, 114. algebraically, 115. alike, 116. all, 117. all right, 118. allegorically, 119. allowably, 120. alluringly, 121. allusively, 122. almost, 123. aloft, 124. along, 125. aloofly, 126. aloud, 127. alphabetically, 128. alphanumerically, 129. alright, 130. alterably, 131. alternately, 132. alternatively, 133. altogether, 134. always, 135. amateurishly, 136. amazedly, 137. amazingly, 138. ambidextrously, 139. ambiguously, 140. ambitiously, 141. ambivalently, 142. amenably, 143. amiably, 144. amicably, 145. amiss, 146. amok, 147. amorally, 148. amorously, 149. amorphously, 150. amphibiously, 151. amusedly, 152. amusingly, 153. analogously, 154. analytically, 155. anarchically, 156. anatomically, 157. anciently, 158. androgynously, 159. anecdotally, 160. anemically, 161. anesthetically, 162. angelically, 163. angrily, 164. angularly, 165. anhydrously, 166. animatedly, 167. annoyingly, 168. annually, 169. annularly, 170. anomalously, 171. anonymously, 172. answerably, 173. antagonistically, 174. antecedently, 175. anthropocentrically, 176. anthropomorphically, 177. anticipatorily, 178. antipathetically, 179. antiseptically, 180. antisocially, 181. antithetically, 182. anxiously, 183. any, 184. anyway, 185. apart, 186. apathetically, 187. aphoristically, 188. apishly, 189. apocalyptically, 190. apocryphally, 191. apolitically, 192. apologetically, 193. apoplectically, 194. apostolically, 195. appallingly, 196. apparently, 197. appealingly, 198. appellatively, 199. appetizingly, 200. applicably, 201. appositely, 202. appreciably, 203. appreciatively, 204. apprehensively, 205. approachably, 206. appropriately, 207. approvingly, 208. approximately, 209. aptly