Pernilla Hallonsten Halling

Part I. Background and methodology, Part

II. Results, and Part III. Discussion. An outline of the individual chapters of these three
1.1. Part I. Background and methodology

parts is presented in the following sections. The present introduction is intentionally brief, chapter 2 serving as an in-depth introduction and survey of adverbs.

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   Part I. Background and methodology
   

The first part of this dissertation contains three chapters that provide a background to the study and that describe the methodology employed. Chapter 2 brings together different approaches to adverbs, and to a certain extent, to adjectives. The chapter opens with an introduction to adverbs in general and discusses the issue of how to distinguish between different types of adverbs (section 2.2). This is followed by a section devoted to theoretical approaches that make relevant contributions to the discussion of adverbs (section 2.3). Section 2.4 gives an account of previous typological studies of adverbs. Various phenomena related to adverbs, e.g. adjectives, depictives, and resultatives, are discussed in section 2.5. In chapter 3, I propose a definition of modification and discuss the meaning of adverbs as modifiers. Here, I also discuss the relation between adverbial modification and predication, with particular reference to secondary predication, one of the issues being whether adverbs should be seen as secondary predicates. In chapter 4, I discuss the functions of attributive adjectives, predicative adjectives, and adverbs, as comparative concepts. This is followed by a description of the constructional-typological approach (Koch 2012), which is the methodology that I have chosen for the typological analysis. Chapter 4 also describes the sampling procedure and data collection.

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