Adverbs and adverbial phrases
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What is the difference between primary and secondary adverbs
What is the principal function of the adverb
To fill the adverbial slot (as much as it has phrasal rank_
john die YESTERDAY (time)
wonderfully (manner)
here (place
frequency or quantifier
intensifier
What do mainly secondary adjectives function as
-modifiers of adjecitves. Moslty intensifiers
(really good, extremely interseting. Easily)
-modifiers of adverbs
smoked very heavily, surprinsingly well
-modifiers of quantifiers either pronouns or adnominals
nearly everybody
-modifiers of NP
(the title below)
The word above
the meeting yesterday
-a few intensifying adverbs, like right and well
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Can adverbs modify prepositions
Not really, words like right and well modify the whole prepositional phrase.
beacause completely can be placed after Prepositional phrase
What is a clause-internal adverbial
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