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The Development of Speaker-Oriented Adverbs in English: Reanalysis, ellipsis, lexicalization or analogy?
Dagmar Haumann and Kristin Killie
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 287] 2025
► pp. 98–121

Chapter 6
The development of illocutionary adverbs

Article outline
  • 6.1The meanings of the adverbs in the illocutionary subset
    • 6.1.1Content-related illocutionary adverbs and their narrow-scope counterparts
      • 6.1.1.1Frankly. The illocutionary meaning of frankly is illustrated in (1)
      • 6.1.1.2Honestly
      • 6.1.1.3Seriously
    • 6.1.2Form-related illocutionary adverbs and their narrow-scope counterparts
      • 6.1.2.1Briefly
      • 6.1.2.2Broadly
      • 6.1.2.3Roughly
  • 6.2The overall occurrence of the adverbs in the illocutionary subset
  • 6.3Testing the hypotheses empirically
    • 6.3.1Hypothesis I–III: Reanalysis
    • 6.3.2Hypothesis IV: Lexicalization through ellipsis
    • 6.3.3Hypothesis VI: Analogy
  • 6.4An alternative account of the development of illocutionary adverbs
  • 6.5Conclusion
  • Notes
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