In:The Development of Speaker-Oriented Adverbs in English: Reanalysis, ellipsis, lexicalization or analogy?
Dagmar Haumann and Kristin Killie
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 287] 2025
► pp. 97–120
Chapter 6Illocutionary adverbs
Published online: 13 February 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.287.c6
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.287.c6
Article outline
- 6.1The meanings of the adverbs in the illocutionary subset
- 6.1.1Content-related illocutionary adverbs and their narrow-scope counterparts
- 6.1.1.1Frankly
- 6.1.1.2Honestly
- 6.1.1.3Seriously
- 6.1.2Form-related illocutionary adverbs and their narrow-scope
counterparts
- 6.1.2.1Briefly
- 6.1.2.2Broadly
- 6.1.2.3Roughly
- 6.1.1Content-related illocutionary adverbs and their narrow-scope counterparts
- 6.2The overall occurrence of the adverbs in the illocutionary subset
- 6.3Testing the hypotheses empirically
- 6.3.1Hypothesis I–III: Reanalysis
- 6.3.2Hypothesis IV: Lexicalization through ellipsis
- 6.3.3Hypothesis VI: Analogy
- 6.4An alternative account of the development of illocutionary adverbs
- 6.5Conclusion
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