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- Title
Adverbial -s as last resort: n and a get their support.
- Authors
Corver, Norbert
- Abstract
This article examines the grammatical behavior of Dutch adverbs featuring so-called adverbial -s. This will be done on the basis of three questions: Firstly, what is the grammatical nature of adverbial -s? Secondly, in which structural configurations does it appear? Thirdly, what does adverbial -s tell us about the existence of adverbs as a separate part of speech? The article provides the following three answers to these questions: Firstly, adverbial -s is an affixal manifestation of the categorizing heads n and a (so-called -s-Support). Secondly, n and a externalize as -s when the raised root that forms an amalgam with the categorizing head is silent or a bound root. Thirdly, "adverbs" featuring adverbial -s are nominal, adjectival or adpositional expressions with an articulated syntactic structure. Some of these syntactic structures correspond to the so-called construct state. In short, linguistic expressions featuring adverbial -s do not support the idea that adverbs form a separate part of speech.
- Subjects
PARTS of speech; DUTCH language
- Publication
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2022, Vol 40, Issue 4, p1023
- ISSN
0167-806X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11049-021-09527-w