Academic essays entail taking a stance on the truth value of propositions. Epistemic adverbs deal with the speaker's assessment of the truth value of propositions. Employing a corpus-based approach with descriptive statistics and qualitative description, this study explored the use of epistemic stance adverbs in academic essays written by native English speakers and Iranian EFL learners. Follow...

This paper examines the lexicographic treatment of Serbian pronominal words (pronouns, adverbs and particles) in general, with a particular focus on demonstrative pronouns for quantity ovoliki [?this big/ much/many?], toliki [?so big/much/many?] onoliki [?that big/much/many?]. It is shown that, contrary to commonly held views, can be semantically complex, that their tripartite subsystems, chara...

This study aims to analyse a contrastive relation between the English indefinite pronoun any and its Serbian equivalents. Beside simple any, also focuses on how compounds with other words – nouns (-body, -thing), numerals (-one) interrogatives (-where) are performed translated into Serbian. In this sense, is result-oriented. order reveal equivalence relevance distribution in practice, analysis ...

The syntactic category of adverbs is generally associated with the copresence of two properties. First, adverbs, which are typically used with the function of an adjunct, have a remarkable distributional freedom. Second, at least some adverbs are scopal elements, whose scope properties may have consequences on their position. Accordingly, adverbs pose a number of acute questions for the syntax-...

In this paper, we try the classification of adverbs. The method for classifying adverbs is not known well, compared with nouns or verbs. The difficulty comes from vagueness of the relation between adverbs and other words. Using a corpus and an existing thesaurus, we investigate the elements which play an important role in the classification of adverbs. We got experimental results which showed t...

On the one hand, it is well-known that adverbs raise interface problems, on the other, the architecture of HPSG is well suited for expressing the correlations between aspects of the different linguistic dimensions, treating them in a parallel fashion, and representing all of themwith feature structures. We will study the interaction of scoping with syntactic properties (grammatical function and...

Recent literature on the placement and interpretation of adverbs has tried to explain crosslinguistic fixed hierarchies on the order of adverbs on the basis of strict syntactic hierarchies (e.g. Cinque 1999). The aim of this talk is to show that, in order to understand the distribution of adverbs, one must take into account information coming from different domains: their (non)inherent semantic...

Adverbs are one of the most intriguing categories language in terms composition, morphological characteristics, syntactic function, origin, usage and others. When we look at spelling meanings closely, number contradictions found. The paper examines compound adverbs Bulgarian grammar which formed with particularly prepositional prefix such as "НА; ОТ; ДО". examination was carried out according t...

Recent literature on the placement and interpretation of adverbs has tried to explain crosslinguistic fixed hierarchies on the order of adverbs on the basis of strict syntactic hierarchies (e.g. Cinque 1999). The aim of this talk is to show that, in order to understand the distribution of adverbs, one must take into account information coming from different domains: their (non)inherent semantic...