On the adjective/adverb interface: subject-related -ly

Subject-relatedness is a term used to define subject-oriented -ly adverbs that are not liable convey adverbial meaning and only retain the predicative function (Díaz-Negrillo 2014, Valera 2014). Previous corpus evidence of subject-relatedness has been found in colour adjectives (Valera 2014), which seems restrict this narrow semantic class but, as central members word-class (cf. Dixon 1977), relevance these subject-related may be higher than presumed. The present paper presents results systematic search 17,460 BNC bigrams containing verbs followed by adverbs. show beyond alone wide range combinations. interpretations mismatch between suffix categorial associated with or structures where they appear manifold could make an impact on classification