“…5 and 6), adjectives that have relexicalized as adverbs (offenbar, vermutlich) and adverbs derived from adjectives (using -ly, -mente, -erweise), which seem to compete for adverbial functions. This field has been extensively studied in Romance in the last years from a diachronic perspective (see especially the studies in Hummel & Valera 2017 as well as contributions by Hummel 2018, Gerhalter 2020and Schneider, Pollin, Gerhalter & Hummel 2020. Hummel (2019) distinguishes between three competing ways of forming adverbs in the history of Romance: the use of adverbial adjectives (seguro, "surely, for sure"); suffix derivation (seguramente, "surely, for sure"); prepositional constructions (de seguro, "surely, for sure").…”