92, 5/2018

Formal and functional perspectives on sentence adverbials in the Romance languages and beyond

edited by: Anna-Maria De Cesare, Ana Albom, Doriana Cimmino and

Marta Lupica Spagnolo

Herausgeberin (V.i.S.d.P.)/editor-in-chief:

Elke Hentschel Universität Bern

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ISSN 1615-3014 licensed under CC 3.0

92, 5/2018

ISSN 1615-3014

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Table of contents

Anna-Maria De Cesare, Ana Albom, Doriana Cimmino and Marta Lupica Spagnolo (Basel): Sentence adverbials: Defining the research object and outlining the research results ............... 3

Emma Álvarez-Prendes (Oviedo): Uses and Properties of some Adverbs in Contemporary French and Spanish: honnêtement and sérieusement vs. honestamente, seriamente and en serio .................................................. 13

Sonia Gómez-Jordana (Madrid): A diachronic analysis of visiblement/visiblemente: contemporary false-friends...................... 47

Klaus Grübl (Munich): On the rise of domain adverbials in Italian: the history of the -mente parlando construction. 65

Gerda Haßler (Potsdam): Evidential and epistemic sentence adverbs in Romance languages ......................................... 87

Martin Hummel (Graz): Romance sentence adverbs in -mente: Epistemic mitigation in synchrony and diachrony.... 111

Francesca La Forgia (Bologna): Epistemic, Evaluative, Speech Act Adverbs and Italian Political Language ......................... 145

Ignazio Mauro Mirto (Palermo): The hidden side of adverbs..................................................................................................... 173

Paola Pietrandrea (Lille): Epistemic sentence adverbs, epistemic complement-taking predicates and epistemic pragmatic markers .................................................................................................................. 193

Gianluca Pontrandolfo (Trieste): Sensibly and appropriately the judge considered… A corpus-based study of sentence adverbs in judicial language ................................................................................................... 215

Corinne Rossari (Neuchâtel): The representation of modal meaning of French sentence adverbs in a qualitative and quantitative approach.............................................................................................................. 235

Information about the authors ..................................................................................................... 257