Description

• Title:
  English ‘-Ly’ Adverbs: from Subject Orientation to Conversion
• Creator:
  Valera, Salvador
• Description:
  Unlike subject-orientation in English ‘-ly’ adverbs, subject-relatedness does not conflate two syntactic functions in one and the same form: subject-related ‘-ly’ adverbs are predicative elements in the clause and do not function as adverbials. Therefore, the morphological make-up of subject-related ‘-ly’ adverbs does not match the syntactic function and the categorial meaning usually associated with the adverbial suffix ‘-ly’. In subject-relatedness, the association of the predicative function with the ‘-ly’ suffix differs from that of the well-known set of ‘-ly’ adjectives where the suffix is the present-day form of Old English ‘-līc’. Subject-relatedness raises the question of how these ‘-ly’ adverbs should be classified and the implications of this classification on their place in the system of word-classes. Specifically, it raises the question of the place of this morphological, syntactic and semantic behaviour with respect to word-class membership. In this respect, the paper explores the interpretation of subject-related ‘-ly’ words in frameworks where adjectives and adverbs are considered one and the same word-class and also where they are considered separate ones. The interpretation of subject-related ‘-ly’ words as belonging to the categorial space between adjective and adverb is relevant especially in respect of the morphosyntactic processes described in the literature for similar cases: although the profile of subject-related ‘-ly’ words appears to meet the conditions of conversion, they do not become lexicalized, as in lexical conversion, and cannot be traced back to a syntactic process, as in syntactic conversion
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2014 Salvador Valera
• Date:
  2014.12.30
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Peer-reviewed articles
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Studia Anglica Posnaniensia; Vol. 49 No. 1 (2014); 77-102;
  Studia Anglica Posnaniensia; Tom 49 Nr 1 (2014); 77-102;
  2082-5102;
  0081-6272
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/stap/article/view/stap-2014-0004/28789
• Subject:
  subject orientation;
  subject-relatedness;
  conversion;
  ‘-ly’ adverbs
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/stap/article/view/stap-2014-0004
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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  seek permission
• Type:
  other