Carmen Mîrzea Vasile
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198712350
- eISBN:
- 9780191780899
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198712350.003.0006
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Syntax and Morphology
This chapter addresses some syntactic changes affecting Romanian adverbs. Special attention is paid to the differences between OR and MR in the typology of adverbs, the internal structure of the ...
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This chapter addresses some syntactic changes affecting Romanian adverbs. Special attention is paid to the differences between OR and MR in the typology of adverbs, the internal structure of the adverbial phrase (modifiers, complements—the comparative complement, the indirect and indirect objects—, adverbs as host for pronominal clitics, adjuncts), grading (degree markers vs. full lexical adverbs), focusing adverbs, adverbs dislocating complex verb forms, etc.Less
This chapter addresses some syntactic changes affecting Romanian adverbs. Special attention is paid to the differences between OR and MR in the typology of adverbs, the internal structure of the adverbial phrase (modifiers, complements—the comparative complement, the indirect and indirect objects—, adverbs as host for pronominal clitics, adjuncts), grading (degree markers vs. full lexical adverbs), focusing adverbs, adverbs dislocating complex verb forms, etc.
Jan Terje Faarlund
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198817918
- eISBN:
- 9780191859298
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198817918.003.0004
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Syntax and Morphology, Language Families
Prepositions are either basic lexical items, compounds, or lexicalized expressions. They denote various relations, such as location, direction to or from, time, manner, or more abstract relations. ...
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Prepositions are either basic lexical items, compounds, or lexicalized expressions. They denote various relations, such as location, direction to or from, time, manner, or more abstract relations. Prepositional phrases used as adverbial complements have an external argument which may raise to become the subject of a copula or the object of a transitive verb, or the subject or object of an unaccusative verb. A preposition may take its complement in a form of a DP, another PP, or a CP, or it may be intransitive. This is what prepositions have in common with verbs and adjectives. Some words that are traditionally called adverbs are here categorized as intransitive prepositions. Prepositions may be modified by words or phrases of various categories, such as adjectives in the neuter, adverbs, or measure phrases.Less
Prepositions are either basic lexical items, compounds, or lexicalized expressions. They denote various relations, such as location, direction to or from, time, manner, or more abstract relations. Prepositional phrases used as adverbial complements have an external argument which may raise to become the subject of a copula or the object of a transitive verb, or the subject or object of an unaccusative verb. A preposition may take its complement in a form of a DP, another PP, or a CP, or it may be intransitive. This is what prepositions have in common with verbs and adjectives. Some words that are traditionally called adverbs are here categorized as intransitive prepositions. Prepositions may be modified by words or phrases of various categories, such as adjectives in the neuter, adverbs, or measure phrases.
