SENTENCE MODIFIERS SEEMINGLY AND SURPRISINGLY

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
SENTENCE MODIFIERS SEEMINGLY AND SURPRISINGLY
Original language description
This article deals with the issues of translating -ingly adverbs functioning as content disjuncts. It does so on the example of the two most frequently used ?ing participle based disjuncts surprisingly and seemingly. A judgement-value content disjunct surprisingly expresses the speaker?s attitude to what is being said as unexpected whereas seemingly, a truth-value epistemic content disjunct expresses the speaker?s degree of doubt. Although their disjunctive function prevails, they are homonymous with other, integrated manner or intensifying syntactic functions. Therefore, a careful analysis of their syntactic position in the sentence and their semantic interpretation are important to determine their non-integrated character and disjunctive function. Their translation into Czech seems to be problematic as ?ingly disjuncts as their corresponding adverbial structural counterparts are more or less non-existent. Existing adverbial counterparts usually reflect the integrated nature of the ad
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AI - Linguistics
OECD FORD branch
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Publication year
2012
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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