Manner and adverb: Fuzzy categorial boundaries in collocations
Manner and adverb: Fuzzy categorial boundaries in collocations

Summary/Abstract: It is a well-known fact that natural languages do not correspond to the linguistic categories without trouble. Regarding the category of word classes, one of the most challenging groups in Estonian is the adverb, characterized by continuing supplementation by case forms of nouns. This article explores the notion of nominal adverb from the perspective of another prototype-based category, manner. The analysis of manner expressions follows Virtanen’s (2008) ‘manner plus’ idea, assuming semantic blends of manner and some other category. This study is induced by work with the Estonian collocations dictionary and the data the compilation is based on. The analysis explicates the collocational behaviour and the types of semantic blends of the selected nominal adverbs in the inner local cases illative, inessive and elative, focusing on adverb-verb combinations.

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