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Adverbs and Particles at the Form-Meaning Interface
Adverbs and Particles at the Form-Meaning Interface offers a comprehensive investigation of two word classes that play a crucial role at the interfaces and have posed challenges for linguistic theory. Drawing on a broad typological range, including Germanic, Romance, Basque, and Heritage Greek, this volume sheds new light on the role of adverbs and particles at the interfaces between morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. Contributions from both established and emerging scholars offer original theoretical, methodological, and empirical research, addressing diverse topics such as the internal structure of adverbs, external syntax, grammaticalization from adverbs to particles, and their specific role in discourse. This volume will be highly relevant to theoretical and historical linguists, particularly those interested in the interaction of form and meaning.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 292] 2026. vi, 384 pp.
Publishing status: Printing; Print edition expected April 2026
Published online on 23 March 2026
Published online on 23 March 2026
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Table of Contents
- Adverbs and particles at the form–meaning interface: An introductionMarco Coniglio, Kalle Müller and Markus Steinbach | pp. 1–12
- Part I. On the syntax of adverbs and particles
- From adverb to modal particle: German wieder ‘again’ and its kinKarin Pittner | pp. 14–41
- Manner adverbs in -mente from Latin to Brazilian Portuguese: A grammaticalization analysis under Distributed MorphologyLydsson Agostinho Gonçalves, Bianca Agrelli Rodrigues and Paula Roberta Gabbai Armelin | pp. 42–71
- Wise adverbs and the functional hierarchy: A case studyMarijke De Belder and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd | pp. 72–99
- Sentence adverbs and modal particles in BasqueSergio Monforte | pp. 100–115
- Adverbial adjectives vs. adjective-adverbs: What’s better for German?Augustin Speyer and Jenny Diener | pp. 116–141
- Diagnosing features in syntactic derivation: The role of adverbsAquiles Tescari Neto, João Francisco Bergamini-Perez and Bruno Ferreira de Lima | pp. 142–175
- Adverbs and non-arguments in the Left Periphery: A computational cartographic studyGiuseppe Samo | pp. 176–197
- Part II. Studies at the syntax-semantics interface
- Adverb placement and V-raising in heritage GreekArtemis Alexiadou | pp. 200–215
- Syntactic and semantic flexibility among adverbials: Evidence from underspecified adjunctsKristin Klubbo Brodahl | pp. 216–235
- Climbing up the context — from temporal adverb to discourse particle: The case of German jetztKatharina Turgay and Daniel Gutzmann | pp. 236–259
- On the arguments for analyzing adverbs as PPsSascha Alexeyenko | pp. 260–277
- Sentence adverbs based on parenthetical clauses: The case of GermanKatrin Axel-Tober and Kalle Müller | pp. 278–306
- Modal particles with adverb properties in German and DutchSteven Schoonjans | pp. 307–329
- Discourse relations and temporal adjuncts in written Present-Day EnglishMatthias Klumm | pp. 330–351
- On different types of adverbial clauses appearing outside of their hostsWerner Frey | pp. 352–382
- Index | pp. 383–384