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Adverb classes and adverb placement
2017Adverbs are one of the familiar categories of traditional grammar. Traditionally, adverbs are regarded as modifiers of verbs, in comparison with adjectives, which are regarded as modifiers of names. This view, however, runs into problems of both a syntactic and a semantic nature.
Delfitto, Denis, Fiorin, Gaetano
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2023
Abstract The class of adverbs contains a large number of subcategories, ranging from adverbs of manner and degree to modal and illocutionary adverbs. What all adverbs have in common is that they modify a non-nominal head. This head may be lexical in nature, such as an adjective modified by a degree adverb, or syntactic, such as a full ...
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Abstract The class of adverbs contains a large number of subcategories, ranging from adverbs of manner and degree to modal and illocutionary adverbs. What all adverbs have in common is that they modify a non-nominal head. This head may be lexical in nature, such as an adjective modified by a degree adverb, or syntactic, such as a full ...
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Temporal adverbs in Icelandic: adverbs of quantification vs. frequency adverbs
Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 2007Temporal adverbs can usually be divided into groups. Amongst those are adverbs of quantification, such as often, sometimes and never, and frequency adverbs, such as constantly and regularly. This paper presents some new data that shows that the Icelandic temporal adverb alltaf ‘always’ can be both an adverb of quantification and a frequency adverb ...
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