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Functional and diachronic aspects

Karin Pittner Fabian Barteld Daniela Elsner(Editor)

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Published on 24. September 2015

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Introduction
1. Delimiting the category 'adverb'
2. Adverbs and adjectives
3. Adverbs and adverbials: Word class and syntactic function
4. Adverbs as a prototypical category
5. The place of the category 'adverb' among other lexical categories
6. Historical perspectives
7. Overview of contributions
7.1 Categorisation
7.2 Morphological structure
7.3 Diachronic developments
7.4 Positions in syntax
Acknowledgements
References
Adverbs as a linguistic category (?)
1. Introduction
2. What is an adverb? or: How are adverbs identified?
2.1 Identification based on definition
2.2 Identification not based on definition
2.3 Conclusion
3. On linguistic categories
3.1 Categorization in general
3.2 Categorization in linguistics
3.3 Results and conclusions
4. What kind of category do adverbs form?
4.1 Adverbs as a lexical part-of-speech category
4.2 Adverbs as syntactic distributional categories
5. Results
References
Defining Focusing Modifiers in a cross-linguistic perspective
1. Introduction
2. Focusing Modifiers: Labeling and inventorying the class
2.1 Focusing Modifiers: English
2.1.1 Labeling the class
2.1.2 Inventorying the class
2.2 Focusing Modifiers: German
2.2.1 Labeling the class
2.2.2 Inventorying the class
2.3 Focusing Modifiers: French
2.3.1 Labeling the class
2.3.2 Inventorying the class
2.4 Focusing Modifiers: Italian
2.4.1 Labeling the class
2.4.2 Inventorying the class
2.5 Labeling and inventorying the class of FMs: Overview and discussion
2.5.1 Cross-linguistic inventories
2.5.2 Focusing Modifiers: Class extension
3. Focusing Modifiers: Defining criteria
3.1 Semantic properties of Focusing Modifiers
3.1.1 Interaction with a focal expression
3.1.2 Focusing Modifiers: Quantification and scalarity
3.1.3 Focusing Modifiers: Other semantic subclasses
3.1.4 Focusing Modifiers: Towards an operational semantic classification
3.2 Syntactic properties of Focusing Modifiers
3.2.1 Positional variety of Focusing Modifiers
3.2.2 Cross-categoriality of Focusing Modifiers
3.2.3 Focusing Modifiers: Overview of main syntactic features
4. Concluding remarks
References
Dutch adverbial morphology
1. Introduction
2. The Dutch adverb-adjective distinction
2.1 Dutch adverbs and adjectives: many areas of overlap
2.2 Dutch adverbs and adjectives in a scalar approach
3. Dutch adverbial morphology: The traditional account
3.1 Introducing Dutch adverbial morphology
3.2 The inventory of Dutch adverbial suffixes
3.3 Adverbial morphology: A classificational problem
4. Dutch adverbial morphology: A different account
4.1 Investigating Dutch adverbial morphology
4.2 Attributive use of output derivatives
4.3 A scalar approach to adverbial morphology
5. Conclusion and outlook
References
Adverbial morphology in German
1. Introduction
2. On the status of -(er)weise as a word formation device
3. -weise/-erweise-formations in German
3.1 Data - quantitative analysis
3.2 -weise-Formations with nominal bases
3.2.1 Deverbal and non-deverbal bases
3.2.2 Quantifying determiners
3.2.3 Typology & summary
3.3 -erweise-Formations with adjectival bases
3.3.1 Restrictions for bases
3.3.2 Adjectival and participial bases
3.3.3 Typology & summary
4. Conclusion
References
Data
Between inflection and derivation
1. Introduction
2. Adverbs and adjectives: One category?
2.1 Inflection vs. derivation
2.2 Arguments against the inflectional status of -ly
2.3 Arguments in favour of the inflectional status of -ly
3. Historical perspectives
3.1 English
3.2 German
4. Two kinds of adverbial suffixes
5. Developments in German: The suffix -(er)weise
6. Conclusions
References
On the distinction between adverbs and adjectives in Middle High German
1. Introduction
2. Functional and formal properties of adverbs and adjectives
3. Types of modifiers
4. Modifiers in the history of German
5. Modifiers in Middle High German
6. Corpus analysis
6.1 The suffix -e
6.2 -lich(e) and -ig
7. The MHG modifier system
8. Conclusion
Sources of attested examples
References
Lexicalization of PPs to adverbs in historic varieties of German
1. Defining lexicalization
2. How to 'become a word'
3. Properties of prepositional relations, properties of adverbs and the lexicalization of PPs to adverbs
4. Lexicalization of PPs to adverbs in historic varieties of German. The examples of MHG under wegen and bi namen
4.1 under wegen
4.2 bi namen
5. Conclusion
Appendix
References
Primary sources
Secondary sources
Comparative adverb syntax
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical background
3. The cartography of the clause
3.1 The SVO configuration
3.2 The VSO Configuration (in declarative contexts)
3.3 The SOV configuration (in scrambling head/V-final languages)
3.4 Conclusions (first part)
4. P- and K-related positions for objects and adjuncts
4.1 DP- and PP-related Kase projections within the SVO chunk
4.2 A more detailed look at the fine structure of the clausal Mittelfeld
5. Conclusions
References
Adverbs in unusual places
1. Introduction
2. The word class 'adverb'
2.1 The morphological criteria
2.2 Usage-based criteria
3. The English data
3.1 English data: 'yesterday', 'here', and the like
3.2 English: The Payne et al. data
3.2.1 Post-head position as the only possibility
3.2.2 Kinds of semantic usages
3.2.3 Dependency on deverbal heads
3.2.4 Minimal pairs
3.3 Conclusion: The English data
4. The German data
4.1 'Gestern' and thepronoun analysis
4.2 'Hier' and the preposition analysis
4.3 German de-adverbal adjectives
4.4 German translations for the English minimal pairs
4.5 Conclusion: The German data
5. Towards a semantic analysis
5.1 The post-head position and topic sensitivity
5.2 The semantic properties and the adverbial/adverb connection
6. Summary
References
Appendix
Example sources
6.1 Comparison written/spoken German
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