Adverbial shifts: Evidence from Norwegian and English

Swan, Toril

doi:10.1515/9783110863314.409

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“…In the recent evolution of English adverblps, perhaps the most striking phenomenon has been the great expansion of sentence adverbs over the late Middle and early Modern English periods, as highlighted by Swan (1988aSwan ( , 1991. English has seen successive rises in type frequency of three kinds of sentence adverb (Swan 1988a).…”

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Grammaticalizing Adverbs of English: The Case of still

Lewis¹

2020

Crossing Linguistic Boundaries

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The development in English of sentence adverbs, connectives and discourse markers out of VP adverbs has been the subject of a number of recent studies, many of which liken such changes to grammaticalization, involving parallel syntactic and semantic shifts or reanalyses. This paper examines the recent evolution of the English lexeme still, which has given rise to counterexpectational, concessive-connective and discourse-marking uses in addition to the older spatial and temporal ones. Shifts in position, scope and sense are traced to examine how they become correlated over time; the shifts are found to align only over long time periods. No evidence is found for any qualitative differences among the different periods in the evolution of uses of the adverb, from temporal to discoursal. The findings suggest that these shifts are gradual and context-led.

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Section: The Development Of English Sentence Adverbsmentioning

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Grammaticalizing Adverbs of English: The Case of still

Lewis¹

2020

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“…Een mogelijke kandidaat, aangehaald door Barbiers (2001), is 'genoeg', gecombineerd met een adjectief zoals in (7). Swan (1991) De gecombineerd synchroon-diachrone benadering laat toe aspecten van het ontstaan en de ontwikkeling van de onderzochte Nederlandse woordvormingspatronen te beschrijven, die gerelateerd kunnen worden aan bestaande beschrijvingen van hun Duitse en Engelse equivalenten. Zodoende wordt in deze bijdrage gedemonstreerd hoe de contrastieve aanpak als instrument kan dienen om onze kennis over enkele Nederlandse bijwoordelijke suffixen te vergroten en specifiek Nederlandse tendensen met betrekking tot bijwoordvorming op het spoor te komen.…”

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Nederlands in het perspectief van uitspraakverwerving en contrastieve taalkunde

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Heuven

Defrancq

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Lage Landen Studies is de reeks van de Internationale Vereniging voor Neerlandistiek. In de serie worden monografieën en thematische bundels uitgegeven als resultaat van zowel individuele studies als van samenwerking tussen wetenschappers die werkzaam zijn op het gebied van de neerlandistiek. De reeks bevordert bestudering van de Nederlandse taal alsook literatuur en cultuur van de Lage Landen in internationaal perspectief. De redactie streeft naar twee afleveringen per jaar.

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“…'enough') is added to the manner adverb klokt 'cleverly', as in (10)a, rendering a sentence adverb klokt nog 'cleverly', as in (10) This modifier has been noted by some scholars (e.g. Ramat 1994;Malmgren 2002:132-133;Swan 1991) as being a productive 'suffix' for building sentence adverbs in the Scandinavian languages (see also SAG 1999 III:206, IV:110-111 on Swedish nog; Danish and Norwegian use nok). Ramat & Ricca (1998:209) 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.…”

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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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Adverbial shifts: Evidence from Norwegian and English

Cited by 16 publications

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Grammaticalizing Adverbs of English: The Case of still

Grammaticalizing Adverbs of English: The Case of still

Nederlands in het perspectief van uitspraakverwerving en contrastieve taalkunde

Oriented adjuncts across Germanic languages: evidence from English and Swedish

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