Hindi Adverbs and Adverbials

Pluractional Adverbials

(2) a. These blockages can grow instance by instance, cycle by cycle, stone after stone, lifetime after lifetime, until the body starts to manifest these issues as disease b. Brick upon brick, stone upon stone they grow. c. She laid book upon book and built a staircase long enough to climb up and look over the wall. d. This mystery offers puzzle within puzzle. e. The Wall of Tears is a very big...

Manner Adverbs and Scope

Locating adverbials in discourse

This article analyses Locating Adverbials (LAs) such as un peu plus tard, ce matin, deux kilomètres plus loin (‘a little later’, ‘this morning’, ‘two kilometers further’) when they are dislocated to the left of the sentence (IP Adjuncts cases). Although not discourse connectives, in such a position, they seem to play an important part in structuring discourse. It is this contribution of LAs to ...

Adverbs and Light Verbs

Chinese allows manner and degree adverbs to occur further to the left than is possible in English and other languages; compare Amanda will (*loudly) be (loudly) greeting her guests (loudly) with Lisi (qingqingde) ba zhuozi (qingqingde) qiao-le yixia “Lisi lightly knocked once on the table,” with the manner adverbial to the left of BA. It is proposed here that this results from the two languages...

Adverbs And Semantic Inferences

1. L. K a r t t u n e n ( K a r t t u n e n 1970, 1971) demons t r a t ed t h a t i n E n g l i s h t h e r e e x i s t s i x c l a s s e s o f p r e d i c a t e s t h a t d i f f e r as f o r t h e r e l a t i o n s h i p s h o l d i n g be tween the p r e d i c a t e and i t s s e n t e n t i a l complement: f a c t i v e s , p o s i t i v e and n e g a t i v e two-way i m p l i o a t i v e s...