1. Domain adverbials in the news A corpus-based contrastive study of English, German, French, Italian and Spanish
- Author
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Ana Albom, Marta Lupica Spagnolo, Doriana Cimmino, and Anna-Maria De Cesare Greenwald
- Subjects
Germanic lanuages ,050101 languages & linguistics ,Linguistics and Language ,domain adverbials ,History ,Point (typography) ,Romance languages ,05 social sciences ,adverbial formation patterns ,journalistic prose ,language.human_language ,Linguistics ,Newspaper ,Domain (software engineering) ,German ,030507 speech-language pathology & audiology ,03 medical and health sciences ,Empirical research ,language ,Corpus based ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,0305 other medical science ,Meaning (linguistics) ,domain adverbials, Germanic lanuages, Romance languages, journalistic prose, adverbial formation patterns - Abstract
This article examines the functional category of domain adverbials (DAs), which arose fairly recently in the European languages and is claimed to occur frequently in the written press. In order to better understand this category, we investigate the form, use and meaning of DAs in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish and highlight important intra- and cross-linguistic differences by means of a qualitative and quantitative empirical study based on a corpus of journalistic texts drawn from online daily newspapers. Our results show that cross-linguistically DAs are mainly realized as adverbs formed through a standard word-formation rule. Our results also point to important cross-linguistic differences in the frequency and types of domain adverbs used in the five languages. We explain these differences by taking into account grammatical, sociolinguistic and discourse-related parameters.
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- 2019