Adverbs and adverbial phrases

5 important questions on Adverbs and adverbial phrases

What is the difference between primary and secondary adverbs

Secondaries are related to adjectives, while primaries (again, often, here etc are not

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

Adv. Which are really part of the clause, more specifically the adverb

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