Adverbs have become the ragbag in grammar in which all uncategorized items are relegated. Over the years, there have been several studies (e.g., Biber et al., 1999; Halliday, 1994; Hasselgard, 2010; Huddleston & Pullum, 2002; Quirk et al., 1985; Sinclair, 1990) that looked into the syntactic and semantic functions of adverbs. This paper focuses on what Quirk et al. (1985) call ‘disjuncts’ (whic...

This paper is about two competing marking strategies for contrastive topics in a topic shift context French: emphatic pronouns and adverbs. We analyse the choice between these markers one specific syntactic position, i.e. when they occur subject finite verb, different corpora consisting of formal written, informal written spoken French. Our results indicate that frequency adverbs register-depen...

The German standard language and some of its dialects distinguish two types of directional adverbs, depending on the perspective taken in the speech event. For example, both SHG hinauf vs. herauf mean up. However, the two adverbs differ in that a motion verb modified by SHG hinauf will be construed not only as being UP(WARDS) but also as being AWAYFROM-(the)-ORIGO (we use the term origo to refe...

negative-maker affixes are those linguistic elements that are widely used in word making. the function and the type of each of these affixes are unique and different from others. the russian affix ??-, for example, in its combination with pronouns and adverbs, makes non-referential sentences that use the infinitive form of the verb, while the affix ??- in its combination with pronouns and adver...

Co-occurring of modal adverbs and clause-final modality forms in the Japanese language exhibits a strong agreement-like behaviour. We refer to such co-occurrences as distant collocations a notion that warrants further consideration within the fields of corpus linguistics and computational linguistics. In this paper we concentrate on a set of suppositional adverbs and investigate the kinds of cl...

In ordinary English aspectual adverbs such as in French and English encore/still, ne pas encore/not yet, déja/already, and enfin/finally are used to create temporal coherence in local contexts, as well as to carry prosodic features that directly indicate the speaker’s epistemic attitudes towards the course of events described. In multi-agent contexts factual information, or the content asserted...