3 Adverbial quantification in the languages of Europe: theory and typology

Cabrera, Juan Carlos Moreno

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“…Moreno Cabrera (1998) formulated fine-grained typological criteria for classifying (verbal) quantifiers, which combine syntactic, semantic, and morphological properties. Based on this set of criteria, and also taking into account the scope of quantification, the German indefinite quantifiers perform the function of external quantification.…”

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“…There is no evidence of indefinite quantifiers referring to the number of times an action or situation is repeated within a time interval. This would correspond to internal quantification (for example, twice in He often ironed his shirt twice ; see Moreno Cabrera 1998:149–150). This classification is supplemented with information on the morphological structure.…”

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“…Moreno Cabrera (1998:158) provides a more fine-grained scale for (verbal) quantification. As shown in figure 1, his scale includes the categories paucal ‘a few times’, multal ‘many times’, and omnial ‘always’.…”

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“…Iterative adverbs have different lexical sources and therefore different morphosyntactic properties. For example, many of them derive from NPs (for example, sonntags ‘on Sundays’; see Haspelmath 1997, Ramat 2011, Waldenberger 2015) or originate from a combination of numeralia and time words or phrases (for example, zweimal die Woche ‘twice a week’; see Moreno Cabrera 1998). In this article, however, I focus on a particular type of iterative adverb, namely, those that can be classified as indefinite quantifiers.…”

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Mass, Iteration, and Pejoration: On the Evolution of Iterative Adverbs from Indefinite Quantifiers in German Varieties

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J Ger Ling

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This article deals with the formal and functional development of aspectual adverbs from indefinite quantifiers in German. More specifically, it focuses on the functions of adverbs that prompted their development into different iterative markers. Through a corpus analysis of spoken language data, insights were gained into the semantic spectrum of the nonstandard adverb als ‘always’. This adverb can be classified as an iterative and, in certain contexts, as a habitual marker, which has undergone a similar development to the standard language adverb viel ‘much’. The article shows that lexical markers of iterativity and—to some extent—habituality may suggest new avenues for variation and change research. It traces the development of the habitual function of als and offers new perspectives for in-depth analyses of the evolution of lexical aspectuality marking.*

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“…Both aa and -mente are heavily restricted by the lexical basis of their adjective etymon, and because of that, not all adjectives allow recategorization as aa nor generate -mente adverbs. Also, the complex internal classifications of aa and -mente are determined by the lexical and aspectual meaning of the adjective basis and by the lexical and aspectual verb classes co-occurring with aa and -mente (Moreno 1998;Kovacci 1999;Katz 2008, among many others).…”

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Adjective Adverb Interfaces in Romance

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2017

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

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adverbial inflection or adverbial agreement anticipated in the previous chapter by Hummel (here illustrated with Ledgeway's examples for Italian):(4) Maria parla svelta/svelto 'Maria is a quick-talker/is talking quickly'(5) (?)da Forgione pagherai queste scarpe salatamente/salate 'You'll pay for these shoes dearly at Forgione's'The resulting overview brings to light a dissimilar spread of adverbial agreement across Romance, ranging from varieties where it is not recorded to others with varying degrees of morphological realization of agreement marks, all of which make up a system of four basic patterns labelled 'Pattern 1', 'Pattern 2', 'Pattern 3' and 'Pattern 4'. This chapter also remarks that languages that maintain forms with and without adverbial marks like -ment in French or -mente in Spanish appear to behave similarly to varieties where the so-called adjectival adverbs are in frequent use.Cruschina and Remberger's chapter (Before the complementizer: Adverb types and root clause modification) widens the scope of the book to the sentence level and also to a contrastive approach in Romance. Set within a generative theoretical framework, it contrasts complemented sentence-initial adjectives and adverbs. The grammaticalization of these structures also affects the function of the complementizer, which can no longer be interpreted as a marker of subordination (here illustrated with examples from Italian, Spanish, English and French):(6) (It.)Certo che potevamo impegnarci un po' di più 'We could have certainly made a greater effort. '(Sp.) Claro que no tiene ningún interés 'He clearly doesn't have any interest. ' (8) (En.) Obviously that the Achilles was giving him a bit of a problem (9) (Fr.) Probablement que ce n'est pas leur faute 'It probably isn't their fault. 'The structures are classified as types (A, B) according to their adverbs. The generative approach offers a description of all these structures under one label, 'C-constructions', as root clauses consisting of an element displaying various degrees of grammaticalization and scoping over a sentence. The various degrees of grammaticalization entail various outcomes. In fact, the chapter carries further relevant implications beyond those that can arise from the study of these specific

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Chapter 9. Adverbial adjectives and - mente adverbs face to face

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3 Adverbial quantification in the languages of Europe: theory and typology

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Mass, Iteration, and Pejoration: On the Evolution of Iterative Adverbs from Indefinite Quantifiers in German Varieties

Mass, Iteration, and Pejoration: On the Evolution of Iterative Adverbs from Indefinite Quantifiers in German Varieties

Adjective Adverb Interfaces in Romance

Chapter 9. Adverbial adjectives and - mente adverbs face to face

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