Point-of-view Adverbs in Portuguese Advérbios de ponto de vista em português

Point-of-View Adverbs in Portuguese

This paper examines the syntactic and semantic properties of POV adverbs in Portuguese, with the aim of delineating their lexical, syntactic, and semantic properties in comparison with other adverbial classes. Within the Lexicon–Grammar framework, the analysis shows that POV adverbs display several properties typically...

Focus adverbs

A Behavioral Profile of weak epistemic adverbs in Colombian Spanish

Abstract The present study employs the Behavioral Profile approach to better understand the distribution and use of weak epistemic adverbs in Colombian Spanish. Tokens of six synonymous adverbs (a lo mejor, de pronto, posiblemente, quizá, quizás, tal vez) were extracted from Corpus del Español (Web/Dialect) and coded f...

The Educational Value of Grammatical Transitivity in Teaching Russian: Syntactic Conditions for the Adverbialization of Nouns

In the professional training of philology students and future Russian-language teachers, it is especially important to develop the ability to justify the categorial status of ambiguous units. The article treats the adverbialization of prepositionless noun forms as material for developing that ability. The study aims to...

TEXT-FORMING FUNCTIONS OF ADVERBIAL CLAUSES OF TIME IN ENGLISH

This article examines the text-forming functions of adverbial clauses of time in English from the perspective of discourse and text linguistics. The study determines the role of adverbial clauses of time in establishing chronological sequence, ensuring coherence and consistency of the text, forming thematic transitions...

A Study on the Cognition and Contextual Construction of the “DEGREE ADVERB + NOUN” Structure

Research on degree expression in English has primarily examined how degree adverbs modify adjectives, verbs, and clauses. However, relatively little attention has been paid to the cognitive constraints and contextual mechanisms underlying the cross-categorial “degree adverb + noun” construction, particularly in Malaysi...