Chapter 7. Adjectives and adverbs

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Grammar of Spoken and Written English
Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey N. Leech, Susan Conrad and Edward Finegan
[Not in series 232] 2021
► pp. 501–564

Chapter 7
Adjectives and adverbs

Article outline

7.1Overview
- 7.1.1Use of adjectives and adverbs
7.2Defining characteristics of adjectives
- 7.2.1Attributive and predicative adjectives across registers
  - corpus findings
  - discussion of findings
- 7.2.2Central and peripheral adjectives
- 7.2.3Adjectives strongly associated with attributive or predicative position
  - corpus findings ^,
7.3Semantic grouping of adjectives
7.4Attributive adjectives
- 7.4.1Semantic domains of attributive adjectives
  - corpus findings
  - discussion of findings
- 7.4.2Most common attributive adjectives
  - corpus findings
  - DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS
7.5Predicative adjectives
- 7.5.1Most common predicative adjectives
  - corpus findings
  - discussion of findings
7.6Adjectives in other syntactic roles
- 7.6.1Postposed adjectives
- 7.6.2Adjectives as noun phrase heads
- 7.6.3Adjectives with a clause linking function
- 7.6.4Adjectives as exclamations
- 7.6.5Adjectives as detached predicatives
7.7Comparative and superlative degree
- 7.7.1Gradable adjectives with -er and -est
- 7.7.2Inflectional v. phrasal comparison
  - corpus findings ^,
  - discussion of findings
- 7.7.3Inflectional comparison across registers
  - corpus findings
  - discussion of findings
- 7.7.4Phrasal comparison with more and most
  - corpus findings
  - discussion of findings
- 7.7.5Doubly marked comparatives and superlatives
- 7.7.6Adjectives with superlative or absolute meanings
7.8Comparative clauses and other degree complements
- 7.8.1Comparative constructions across registers
  - corpus findings
  - discussion of findings
7.9Formation of adjectives
- 7.9.1Participial adjectives
  - 7.9.1.1Common participial adjectives
    - corpus findings
- 7.9.2Derived adjectives
  - 7.9.2.1Common adjectives with derivational suffixes
    - corpus findings
    - discussion of findings
- 7.9.3Adjectival compounds
  - 7.9.3.1Distribution of adjectival compounds
    - corpus findings
    - discussion of findings
7.10Adjectives in combination
- 7.10.1Repeated comparative adjectives
  - corpus findings
  - discussion of findings
- 7.10.2The intensifiers good and and nice and
7.11Overview of adverbs
7.12The form of adverbs
- 7.12.1Formation of adverbs
  - 7.12.1.1Adverb forms
    - corpus findings ^,
    - discussion of findings
- 7.12.2Adverbs and adjectives with the same form
  - 7.12.2.1 Good and real as adverbs
    - corpus findings ^,
    - discussion of findings
- 7.12.3Comparative and superlative forms
7.13Syntactic roles of adverbs
- 7.13.1Adverbs modifying adjectives
  - 7.13.1.1Adverbs modifying adjectives in conversation and academic prose
    - corpus findings
    - discussion of findings
- 7.13.2Adverbs modifying other adverbs
  - 7.13.2.1Adverbs modifying adverbs in conversation and academic prose
    - corpus findings
    - discussion of findings
- 7.13.3Adverbs modifying other elements
- 7.13.4Adverbs as complements of prepositions
- 7.13.5Adverbs as clause elements: Adverbials
- 7.13.6Adverbs with degree complements
- 7.13.7Adverbs standing alone
7.14Semantic categories of adverbs
- 7.14.1Importance of context in the semantics of adverbs
- 7.14.2Description of semantic categories
  - 7.14.2.1Place
  - 7.14.2.2Time
  - 7.14.2.3Manner
  - 7.14.2.4Degree
  - 7.14.2.5Additive/restrictive
  - 7.14.2.6Stance
  - 7.14.2.7Linking
  - 7.14.2.8Other meanings
- 7.14.3Semantic domains of adverbs in conversation and academic prose
  - corpus findings ^,
  - discussion of findings
7.15Discourse choices for degree adverbs as modifiers
- 7.15.1Amplifiers in conversation and academic prose
  - corpus findings ^,
  - discussion of findings
- 7.15.2Degree modifiers other than amplifiers in conversation and academic prose
  - corpus findings ^,
  - discussion of findings

Chapter 7Adjectives and adverbs

Chapter 7
Adjectives and adverbs