Expressing Manner: The Linguistic Realizations of an Elusive Concept

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Expressing Manner

The Linguistic Realizations of an Elusive Concept

Edited by: Olivier Duplâtre and Patrick Duffley

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Traditional grammar distinguishes adverbs by establishing semantic classes: adverbs of place are the starting point of this classification, followed by adverbs of time and manner adverbs. But what is manner? Unlike space or time, it has never been the subject of in-depth investigation. We take for granted that it is an ontological category, which the question "how" detects, but what else can be said about this concept? Where does manner originate? How is it encoded linguistically, especially in adverbless languages? Given that the question "how" can also cover such heterogeneous notions as degree, instrument, etc., is manner an elusive concept or can it be precisely defined?

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Olivier Duplâtre, Sorbonne University, France; Patrick Duffley, Université Laval, Canada.

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1 Introduction
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Olivier Duplâtre and Patrick Duffley

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Part I: Demonstratives: A basic strategy
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2 The concept of manner and its encoding: A view from the periphery
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Ekkehard König and Letizia Vezzosi

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Part II: Canonical strategies in European languages: Verbs, adverbs and adverbials
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3 The grammatical status of manner elements within the English adverb class
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Romain Delhem

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4 The notion of manner in Romance (and English): Caught between the adjectival and circumstantial poles of modification
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Martin Hummel

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5 Break it like this: Manner in causative change-of-state events
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Caterina Cacioli

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6 Manner in the way construction and the reaction object construction
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Ignazio Mauro Mirto

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7 Manner orientation and levels of predication
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Marianne Mithun

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8 On the limits of contact in inducing change: A corpus-based study of manner expression strategies in the emergence period of Modern Hebrew
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Yael Reshef

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9 Structural positions, particles, and focal stress dictate functions and interpretations of Japanese manner adverbs
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Koichiro Nakamura

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10 Being a Regular Verb and a Manner Adverbial Simultaneously:
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Kazuhiko Fukushima

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11 How it looks/sounds/feels or how I see/hear/feel it: Lexico-syntax and pragmatics of onomatopoeic manner expressions in Japanese, Korean, and Ainu
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Katsunobu Izutsu, Mitsuko Narita Izutsu and Yong-Taek Kim

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Manner; Adverb; Adverbial; Action; Instrument; Degree

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Researchers in Syntax and Semantics, Language Typology and Philosophy of Language.

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Expressing Manner

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Frontmatter

Contents

List of contributors

1 Introduction

2 The concept of manner and its encoding: A view from the periphery

3 The grammatical status of manner elements within the English adverb class

4 The notion of manner in Romance (and English): Caught between the adjectival and circumstantial poles of modification

5 Break it like this: Manner in causative change-of-state events

6 Manner in the way construction and the reaction object construction

7 Manner orientation and levels of predication

8 On the limits of contact in inducing change: A corpus-based study of manner expression strategies in the emergence period of Modern Hebrew

9 Structural positions, particles, and focal stress dictate functions and interpretations of Japanese manner adverbs

10 Being a Regular Verb and a Manner Adverbial Simultaneously:

11 How it looks/sounds/feels or how I see/hear/feel it: Lexico-syntax and pragmatics of onomatopoeic manner expressions in Japanese, Korean, and Ainu

Index

Expressing Manner

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Frontmatter

Contents

List of contributors

1 Introduction

2 The concept of manner and its encoding: A view from the periphery

3 The grammatical status of manner elements within the English adverb class

4 The notion of manner in Romance (and English): Caught between the adjectival and circumstantial poles of modification

5 Break it like this: Manner in causative change-of-state events

6 Manner in the way construction and the reaction object construction

7 Manner orientation and levels of predication

8 On the limits of contact in inducing change: A corpus-based study of manner expression strategies in the emergence period of Modern Hebrew

9 Structural positions, particles, and focal stress dictate functions and interpretations of Japanese manner adverbs

10 Being a Regular Verb and a Manner Adverbial Simultaneously:

11 How it looks/sounds/feels or how I see/hear/feel it: Lexico-syntax and pragmatics of onomatopoeic manner expressions in Japanese, Korean, and Ainu

Index

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