On the Periphery of the English Adverb

International Journal of Humanities and Social Science

© 2019 by SSRG - IJHSS Journal

Volume 6 Issue 5

Year of Publication : 2019

Authors : Olga Shevchenko

10.14445/23942703/IJHSS-V6I5P104

How to Cite?

Olga Shevchenko, "On the Periphery of the English Adverb," SSRG International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, vol. 6,  no. 5, pp. 21-24, 2019. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23942703/IJHSS-V6I5P104

Abstract:

The prototypical approach is one of the important achievements of cognitive grammar. According to it, a lot of intricate phenomena observed in the English part-of-speech system can find explanation of their nature. The English adverb is not either a typical notional or formal part of speech, it combines the characteristic features of both these groups. Besides, its borders are not clearly defined as a lot of words often referred to as adverbs belong to the intermediary zones sharing properties with other parts of speech which is manifested in their semantic, morphological and syntactic peculiarities. The meaning of some adverbs is close to that of pronouns; adverbs are either invariable or form degrees of comparison; together with its most characteristic syntactic function of adverbial modifier the adverb can be used as practically any part of the sentence except the predicate.

Keywords:

prototype, periphery. intermediary zone, notional parts of speech, formal parts of speech, adverb, semantic group, adverbial modifier.

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