Adverbs are a very problematic category with respect to both their notional internal consistency and their status as an open lexical class on their own. After some considerations on the non-prototypical nature of adverb formation, notoriously on the border between inflection and derivation, the present article starts by characterizing the features of a central procedure within the domain, namely the deadjectival manner adverb. It then gives a cross-linguistic illustration of the main extensions related to this formation procedure and further proceeds to discuss other well-represented instances of productive adverbializing morphology, to end with some brief diachronic considerations.

Adverbial categories

RICCA, Davide
2015-01-01

Abstract

Adverbs are a very problematic category with respect to both their notional internal consistency and their status as an open lexical class on their own. After some considerations on the non-prototypical nature of adverb formation, notoriously on the border between inflection and derivation, the present article starts by characterizing the features of a central procedure within the domain, namely the deadjectival manner adverb. It then gives a cross-linguistic illustration of the main extensions related to this formation procedure and further proceeds to discuss other well-represented instances of productive adverbializing morphology, to end with some brief diachronic considerations.
2015
Word-Formation: An International Handbook of the Languages of Europe - Vol. 2
de Gruyter
HSK - Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science
40/2
1390
1406
978-3-11-024626-1
formazione delle parole, categorie lessicali, avverbi, flessione, grammaticalizzazione
Ricca, Davide
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