PLACEMENT OF ADVERBS IN MEDIAL POSITION IN RELATION TO THEIR DISTINCT CLASSES
PLACEMENT OF ADVERBS IN MEDIAL POSITION IN RELATION TO THEIR DISTINCT CLASSES
Author(s): Ioan Beniamin PopSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Cognitive linguistics, Descriptive linguistics
Published by: Universitatea »1 Decembrie 1918« Alba Iulia
Keywords: word order; adverb; medial position; movement; linguistics; classes of adverbs;
Summary/Abstract: Even though many languages, such as Romanian, appear to exhibit a rather free word order, or at least not very rigidly confined syntactically due to the fact that meaning is straightforwardly achieved by means of employing specialized inflectional morphemes, the Modern English of today is rather strict, even rigid for that matter in terms of word order as it is an analytic language. This in turn entails that the syntactic relationships and constrains among words are mostly disclosed by means of the position they occupy within the sentence. The paper analyses one of the positions the adverbs may assume in a declarative sentence, namely medial position, and correlates it to the various classes of adverbs to which they are ascribed.
Journal: Annales Universitatis Apulensis. Series Philologica
- Issue Year: 19/2018
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 231-238
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English