The formation of old english adverbs: structural description and functional

3.  Old English adverb formation and the Layered 

Structure of the Word

After the morphological description provided by Section 2, Section 3 goes on to

explain matters relating to adverb formation. The theoretical model of derivational

morphology I have chosen is the Layered Structure of the Word, henceforth LSW.

LSW (Martín Arista 2008, 2009, fc-a, b) is a contribution to the morphological

theory of Role and Reference Grammar (Foley and Van Valin 1984; Van Valin and

LaPolla 1997; Van Valin 2005) that shares with Word Syntax (Baker 2003; Lieber

1992, 2004) and other functional grammars (Dik 1997a, b) the generalization of

syntactic rules and principles to morphology. Thus, morphology borrows from syntax

a layered structure consisting of a Nucleus to which Arguments are added within a

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[PREFIELD 2] [PREFIELD 1] NUCLEUS [POSTFIELD 1] [POSTFIELD 2]

COMPLEX WORD

N

PERIPHERY

CORE

N

ARG

N

WORD

WORD

N

CORE

CORE

N

NUC

NUC

CORE

N

dis

believ

er

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