(4) ‘Perhaps we could have a drink outside,’ said the woman as the French family exploded with bellowed laughter and banging fists. (BNC, A0L 3527)It needs to be stressed that the functional sets into which the occurrences of perhaps have been grouped are far from uniform. Like many...
The above adverbs are normally called “adverbs of manner” in that they add meaning in the aspect of “manner” to verbs they modify. There is another frequently-used group of adverbs known as “adverbs of frequency”, which include adverbs such asoften,frequentlyandsometimes. In English, the...
One of the distinctive features of the theory of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) is that it distinguishes various hierarchically organized layers of analysis, each of which is provided with a slot for modifiers relevant at the layer in question. Linea
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