Edited by Karin Pittner, Daniela Elsner and Fabian Barteld
Adverbs as a word class are notoriously difficult to define. The volume deals with the delimitation of this category, its internal structure, the morphological make-up of adverbs and their positions in syntactic structures. A closer look at diachronic developments sheds light on the characteristics… read more
The starting point of this paper is a central problem in constructicography: on the one hand, constructicon projects aim at describing a broad spectrum of constructions based on usage data; on the other hand, the established method for determining salient fillers of construction elements (slots)… read more
The German Constructicon Project (www.german-constructicon.de) aims at documenting grammatical constructions in contemporary standard German on the basis of annotated corpus examples, including relations between constructions and between constructions and evoked semantic frames. So far, the… read more
The distinction between adverbs and adjectives is problematic for German. In New High German, for instance, adjective stems can be used adverbially and there is a debate whether they should be categorised as adjective or as adverb. In this paper, I propose three parameters that are related to the… read more
