Phrase Structure Patterning and Licensing for English and Serbian Speaker-Oriented Adverb Subclasses

Gordana Dimković-Telebaković

doi:10.1515/rjes-2016-0013

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Phrase Structure Patterning and Licensing for English and Serbian Speaker-Oriented Adverb Subclasses

Romanian Journal of English Studies

Volume 13 (2016): Issue 1 (December 2016)

By: Gordana Dimković-Telebaković

Open Access

|Dec 2016

Abstract

This paper attempts to set phrase structure rules for English and Serbian speaker-oriented adverb subclasses. Adverbs are looked at here as specifiers licensed by the semantic feature [ILLOCUTIONARY FORCE]. The results suggest that illocutionary, evaluative and evidential adverbs normally merge within the complementizer layer and the inflectional layer, and that English epistemic adverbs are in most cases preferably integrated into the inflectional layer, whereas Serbian epistemic adverbs tend to occur in the sentence-initial position.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2016-0013 | Journal eISSN: 2286-0428 | Journal ISSN: 1584-3734

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Page range: 99 - 109

Published on: Dec 30, 2016

Published by: West University of Timisoara

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Keywords:

speaker-oriented adverbs in English and Serbian,

their distribution and semantics,

the functional specifier analysis and head feature licensing approach

Related subjects:

Linguistics and semiotics,

Theoretical frameworks and disciplines,

Linguistics, other,

Germanic languages,

English

© 2016 Gordana Dimković-Telebaković, published by West University of Timisoara
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