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. 121–141
Chapter 7Evaluative adverbs
Published online: 13 February 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.287.c7
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.287.c7
Article outline
- 7.1The meanings of the adverbs in the evaluative subset
- 7.1.1Fortunately
- 7.1.2Happily
- 7.1.3Surprisingly
- 7.2The overall occurrence of the adverbs in the evaluative set
- 7.3Testing the hypotheses empirically
- 7.3.1Hypotheses I–III: Reanalysis
- 7.3.2Hypothesis V: Lexicalization of relator -ly: the copular-clause hypothesis
- 7.3.3Hypothesis VI: Analogy
- 7.4Conclusion
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