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THE DEVELOPMENT OF SENTENCE ADVERBS IN ENGLISH
Author(s) -
Swan Toril
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
studia linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.187
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1467-9582
pISSN - 0039-3193
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9582.1988.tb00782.x
Subject(s) - sentence , linguistics , inverted sentence , adverb , history , computer science , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , philosophy , noun
The paper attempts to map the development of sentence adverbs in English, and to show that our modern sentence adverbs have evolved from earlier intensifiers or manner adverbs.