LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Separable Verb, Adverbial Phrase, Part Of Speech
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Adverbs add information about events and states, time, modality and about the speaker"s attitudes. Note: we don"t have diagnostics to distinguish adverbs in these classes. Not all occur in the same position in the sentence. The time interval referred to by past tense is: now. The completion of the event is emphasized: already. Already? (completion of a process not expressed here. The adverb introduced the process and its completion. ) Paraphrase: all, no, few, many times (often, rarely, never, always) Paraphrase: a and y, x but not y. He meant to help, but not interfere. Alternative: here and there are replacements for prepositional phrases: You should put the paper on the desk. (=there) However the adverbs themselves have intrinsic semantic content: Summary: adverbs add information about event or about the speaker"s attitude toward the event, adverb is a lexical category, not grammatical. Adverbs can be created by adding suffixes to other categories: Adjective + -ly => adverb i. ii.
