Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of abbreviations VII
4. Introduction – Adverbs and adverbials: Categorial issues 1
5. I Delimitational approaches
6. 1 Consistency of the class
7. The incoherence of the English adverb class 29
8. The subcategorization of English adverbs: A feature-based clustering approach 55
9. 2 Margins of the class
10. Proteus: Adverbial multi-word expressions in Italian and their cognate counterparts in –mente 85
11. Prenominal adverbs in German? The cases of auf and zu 109
12. II Classificational approaches
13. 3 Adverbial scope: beyond the low / high dichotomy
14. ‘Sentence adverbs’ don’t exist! 135
15. Formal and functional features of modal adverbs in French and Modern Greek 167
16. Different types of subject-oriented adverbials in French and in Mandarin Chinese: A contrastive study 195
17. 4 The case of domain adverb(ial)s
18. Domain adverbials and morphology: The rivalry between -mäßig and -technisch in German 227
19. Framing, segmenting, indexing: Towards a functional account of Romance domain adverbs in written texts 249
20. List of contributors 277
21. Index 279