TY - BOOK ID - 16149621 TI - Focus on additivity : adverbial modifiers in Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages AU - De Cesare, Anna-Maria AU - Andorno, Cecilia PY - 2017 SN - 9789027256836 9789027265258 9027265259 9027256837 PB - Amsterdam John Benjamins Publishing Company DB - UniCat KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Closed-class words (Grammar) KW - Empty words (Grammar) KW - Form words (Grammar) KW - Function words (Grammar) KW - Functors (Grammar) KW - Grammatical words (Grammar) KW - Structural words (Grammar) KW - Particles (Grammar) KW - Particles. KW - Function words. KW - Closed-class words KW - Empty words KW - Form words KW - Functors KW - Grammatical words KW - Structural words KW - Function words KW - Pragmatics KW - Comparative linguistics KW - Germanic languages KW - Romance languages KW - Slavic languages KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation. KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax. KW - Germanische Sprachen. KW - Modifikator. KW - Romanische Sprachen. KW - Slawische Sprachen. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:16149621 AB - The present volume is centered on the notional domain of 'additivity'. Many linguistic phenomena are based on additivity (i.e. are incremental) and additive relations are a mechanism that underlies a wide array of text types. Specifically, the present volume is centered on the class of function words which have been labeled, among many others, 'Additive Focusing Modifiers' (FMs). The chapters gathered in this volume deal with the syntactic, prosodic and pragmatic properties of Additive FMs and new lines of research on these items are pursued, including (i) the historical development of Additive FMs and the use of these forms in older stages of the European languages; (ii) the pragmatic and sociolinguistic properties of Additive FMs, in particular of the functions they play in discourse and their distribution in different language varieties; (iii) the processing of Additive FMs by adults, in particular by relying on reading experiments involving eye tracking and self-paced reading; (iv) the use of Additive FMs in language contact situations and (v) the acquisition of Additive FMs by different learner groups. ER -