Subject-related -ly adverbs: the role of stativity in English adverbial formation. A synchronic and diachronic perspective
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00393274.2022.2139749" target="_blank" >10.1080/00393274.2022.2139749</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Subject-related -ly adverbs: the role of stativity in English adverbial formation. A synchronic and diachronic perspective
Original language description
In English, -ly suffixation of stative adjectival bases has been considered to be blocked since a dynamic interpretation of the resulting -ly adverb is not possible. However, this suffixation is different in subject-related -ly adverbs, i.e., subject-oriented adverbs that only retain the predicative meaning. Based on an analysis of 52,203 occurrences extracted by lemma from the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and with the support of Old and Middle English data obtained from relevant historical dictionaries and corpora, this paper provides synchronic and diachronic evidence and analysis of stative adjectival bases that allow -ly suffixation. Our qualitative and quantitative analysis establishes both relevant conditions, such as the semantic features -CONTROL and +TEMPORARY, for stative adjectival bases to take the suffix -ly and, conversely, irrelevant conditions, such as the syntactic structure of the verb phrase, for this type of suffixation. This type of derivational behaviour is thus shown to appear in a specific type of adjectival bases, namely uncontrollable temporal stative adjectives, which are more liable to be used in specific registers, i.e., fiction. In addition, these results provide new evidence for the classification of -ly adverbs within the adjective/adverb interface.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Studia Neophilologica
ISSN
0039-3274
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Volume of the periodical
94
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
SE - SWEDEN
Number of pages
23
Pages from-to
1-23
UT code for WoS article
000909476300001
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