Adverbs and particles at the form-meaning interface /

"Adverbs and Particles at the Form-Meaning Interface offers a comprehensive investigation of two word classes that play a crucial role at the interfaces and have posed challenges for linguistic theory. Drawing on a broad typological range, including Germanic, Romance, Basque, and Heritage Greek...

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Other Authors: Coniglio, Marco (Editor), Müller, Kalle (Editor), Steinbach, Markus (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2026.
Series:Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today, volume 292
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Adverbs and particles at the form-meaning interface: an introduction / Marco Coniglio, Kalle Müller & Markus Steinbach
  • On the syntax of adverbs and particles. From adverb to modal particle: German wieder 'again' and its kin / Karin Pittner
  • Manner adverbs in -mente from Latin to Brazilian Portuguese: a grammaticalization analysis under Distributed Morphology / Lydsson Agostinho Gonçalves, Bianca Agrelli Rodrigues & Paula Roberta Gabbai Armelin
  • Wise adverbs and the functional hierarchy: a case study / Marijke De Belder & Guido Vanden Wyngaerd
  • Sentence adverbs and modal particles in Basque / Sergio Monforte
  • Adverbial adjectives vs. adjective-adverbs: What's better for German? / Augustin Speyer & Jenny Diener
  • Diagnosing features in syntactic derivation: the role of adverbs / Aquiles Tescari Neto, João Francisco Bergamini-Perez & Bruno Ferreira de Lima
  • Adverbs and non-arguments in the Left Periphery: a computational cartographic study / Giuseppe Samo
  • Studies at the syntax-semantics interface. Adverb placement and V-raising in Heritage Greek / Artemis Alexiadou
  • Syntactic and semantic flexibility among adverbials: evidence from underspecified adjuncts / Kristin Klubbo Brodahl
  • Climbing up the context
  • from temporal adverb to discourse particle: the case of German jetzt / Daniel Gutzmann & Katharina Turgay
  • On the arguments for analyzing adverbs as PPs / Sascha Alexeyenko
  • Sentence adverbs based on parenthetical clauses: the case of German / Katrin Axel-Tober & Kalle Müller
  • Modal particles with adverb properties in German and Dutch / Steven Schoonjans
  • Discourse relations and temporal adjuncts in written Present-Day English / Matthias Klumm
  • On different types of adverbial clauses appearing outside of their hosts / Werner Frey.