Adverbs : functional and diachronic aspects /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2015]
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| Series: | Studies in language companion series ;
Volume 170. |
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Table of Contents:
- Adverbs; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; 1. Delimiting the category 'adverb'; 2. Adverbs and adjectives; 3. Adverbs and adverbials: Word class and syntactic function; 4. Adverbs as a prototypical category; 5. The place of the category 'adverb' among other lexical categories; 6. Historical perspectives; 7. Overview of contributions; 7.1 Categorisation; 7.2 Morphological structure; 7.3 Diachronic developments; 7.4 Positions in syntax; Acknowledgements; References; Adverbs as a linguistic category ; 1. Introduction.
- 2. What is an adverb? or: How are adverbs identified?2.1 Identification based on definition; 2.2 Identification not based on definition; 2.3 Conclusion; 3. On linguistic categories; 3.1 Categorization in general; 3.2 Categorization in linguistics; 3.3 Results and conclusions; 4. What kind of category do adverbs form?; 4.1 Adverbs as a lexical part-of-speech category; 4.2 Adverbs as syntactic distributional categories; 5. Results; References; Defining Focusing Modifiers in a cross-linguistic perspective; 1. Introduction; 2. Focusing Modifiers: Labeling and inventorying the class.
- 2.1 Focusing Modifiers: English2.1.1 Labeling the class; 2.1.2 Inventorying the class; 2.2 Focusing Modifiers: German; 2.2.1 Labeling the class; 2.2.2 Inventorying the class; 2.3 Focusing Modifiers: French; 2.3.1 Labeling the class; 2.3.2 Inventorying the class; 2.4 Focusing Modifiers: Italian; 2.4.1 Labeling the class; 2.4.2 Inventorying the class; 2.5 Labeling and inventorying the class of FMs: Overview and discussion; 2.5.1 Cross-linguistic inventories; 2.5.2 Focusing Modifiers: Class extension; 3. Focusing Modifiers: Defining criteria; 3.1 Semantic properties of Focusing Modifiers.
- 3.1.1 Interaction with a focal expression3.1.2 Focusing Modifiers: Quantification and scalarity; 3.1.3 Focusing Modifiers: Other semantic subclasses; 3.1.4 Focusing Modifiers: Towards an operational semantic classification; 3.2 Syntactic properties of Focusing Modifiers; 3.2.1 Positional variety of Focusing Modifiers; 3.2.2 Cross-categoriality of Focusing Modifiers; 3.2.3 Focusing Modifiers: Overview of main syntactic features; 4. Concluding remarks; References; Dutch adverbial morphology; 1. Introduction; 2. The Dutch adverb-adjective distinction.
- 2.1 Dutch adverbs and adjectives: many areas of overlap2.2 Dutch adverbs and adjectives in a scalar approach; 3. Dutch adverbial morphology: The traditional account; 3.1 Introducing Dutch adverbial morphology; 3.2 The inventory of Dutch adverbial suffixes; 3.3 Adverbial morphology: A classificational problem; 4. Dutch adverbial morphology: A different account; 4.1 Investigating Dutch adverbial morphology; 4.2 Attributive use of output derivatives; 4.3 A scalar approach to adverbial morphology; 5. Conclusion and outlook; References; Adverbial morphology in German; 1. Introduction.