INITIAL POSITION OF ADVERBS IN THE SENTENCE AND THEIR RELATIVE FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT
INITIAL POSITION OF ADVERBS IN THE SENTENCE AND THEIR RELATIVE FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT

Summary/Abstract: Despite the fact that contemporary English limits the ordering of clause elements, several situations emerge when the clause constituents are employed with some relative freedom. There is no other category to be characterized by a relative freedom of movement than the adverbial, the positions of the subject, verb, object and even complement being relatively very strict. Not all adverbs, however, can be moved easily from their position in a given clause without undergoing semantic changes, while others treated as being misplaced.

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