Buch, Englisch, Band 170, 275 Seiten, Gewicht: 645 g
Functional and diachronic aspects
Buch, Englisch, Band 170, 275 Seiten, Gewicht: 645 g
Reihe: Studies in Language Companion Series
ISBN: 978-90-272-5935-6
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Adverbs as a word class are notoriously difficult to define. The volume deals with the delimitation of this category, its internal structure, the morphological make-up of adverbs and their positions in syntactic structures. A closer look at diachronic developments sheds light on the characteristics of adverbial word-formation. Taking into account adverbs in German, English, Dutch, French and Italian, the contributions to this volume provide new insights into the characteristics of this heterogeneous and multi-faceted category and will be of interest to linguists working in the fields of morphology, syntax and language change.