4 Sentence adverbs in the languages of Europe

“…Ramat ; Malmgren :132–133; Swan ) as being a productive ‘suffix’ for building sentence adverbs in the Scandinavian languages (see also SAG III:206, IV:110–111 on Swedish nog ; Danish and Norwegian use nok ). Ramat & Ricca (:209) elaborate on the peculiar fact that only a small set of languages deviate from the majority of languages in that they have a “specialized morphological marking” for sentence adverbs.…”

Section: Defining Oriented Adjunctsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Oriented adjuncts across Germanic languages: evidence from English and Swedish

Rawoens

Taverniers

2015

Studia Linguistica

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This article gives an account of oriented adjuncts in English and Swedish. After a presentation of a number of properties of oriented adjuncts and a discussion of what distinguishes them from other types of adjuncts, we focus on a number of central and peripheral subtypes that have been delineated, starting from a general typology of oriented adjuncts. Each subtype is described in detail in terms of lexical meanings, possible paraphrases and particular syntactic features. It is shown that, in spite of clear similarities, the oriented adjuncts discussed also display a number of subtle differences between English and Swedish, most clearly in terms of morphosyntax

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“…Merlini Barbaresi 1987, Hoye 1997, Ramat and Ricca 1998, Nuyts 2001, and otherwise little is to be found beyond cursory observations that it is also used, for instance as an intensifier (Greenbaum 1969) or an emphasizer (Bolinger 1972, Hoye 1997.…”

Section: What We Do and Do Not Know About Certainly And Zekermentioning

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On certainly and zeker

Byloo¹,

Kastein²,

Nuyts³

2006

BJL

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This contribution investigates the meanings and uses of the English and Dutch adverbs certainly and zeker. In the range of adverbial expressions of epistemic modality, the 'strong' adverbs (expressing 'certainty') clearly tend to be used in a much more 'flexible' way than the (relatively) weaker ones, and this contribution is an attempt to get a better view of what this flexibility actually involves, on the basis of a careful analysis of corpus data. The comparative approach allows us to distinguish between features which are whims of a single language, and hence have little meaning beyond the grammar of that language, and features which reflect more profound issues in the analysis of the meanings at stake, and which therefore may reflect fundamental conceptual issues.

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4 Sentence adverbs in the languages of Europe

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On the role of semantics in a theory of adverb syntax

On the role of semantics in a theory of adverb syntax

Oriented adjuncts across Germanic languages: evidence from English and Swedish

On certainly and zeker

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